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

Trump is going.

Charges now dropped for 129 of the 200+ inauguration protesters who'd been facing down felony riot since April of last year

https://www.courthousenews.com/riot-charges-dropped-against-129-inauguration-day-protesters/

its almost as if this was chilling effect horseshit from day 1

no deal btwn Schmuck & Putz

In a disconcerting turn of irony, Scott Pruitt has announced the EPA will remain open next week even if there is a shutdown.

given how angry I am at my next door neighbor for putting her garbage can over the property line next to our house, and also leaving her decaying xmas wreath on the street in front of my house for two weeks, I sympathise with Paul's neighbor

I sympathize with anyone arrested for punching him.

watching mulvaney on cspan. he is a very frustrated and combative man

he just blamed the democrats for wanting "extra" things in the bill. when a reporter asked why daca/dreamer protection isn't included in the deal, since most republicans seem to support it, he said that daca isn't isn't in it "because it's not ready"

ok

cloture vote set for 10pm EST btw

somehow the righteousness of bob menendez' condemnations of the republicans in his senate floor speech is diminished by his being bob menendez

In a disconcerting turn of irony, Scott Pruitt has announced the EPA will remain open next week even if there is a shutdown.

liberal stalwart doug jones, supporter of NSA surveillance on US citizens, shocks the world and joins donnelly, heitkamp and manchin in favor of the CR.

god, who voted for that guy?

COONS just gave a long readout of the situation:

- Dems want at least agreement on path forward/talks on DACA and other issues
- But leaders can't agree
- So Dems won't support 3-wk CR
- Shutdown happening
- And Big floor speeches coming soon.

— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) January 20, 2018

yep. vote already failed, it's just a matter of waiting for the final tally.

Over past few days Trump has vented his frustrations that a shutdown would keep him from Mar-a-Lago, @lachlan and @swin24 scoophttps://t.co/RUXnMgJJfV

— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 20, 2018

He's really just a perpetual 13-year old isn't he?

is this the first time being President got in the way of golfing and promoting his business?

one of the upsides of this is it will drive him insane

The Saturday gala is set to be hosted by Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and businessman Steve Wynn, and proceeds will go toward the RNC and the Trump re-election campaign.

The event, which the president had been scheduled to headline, was a hot ticket in Trump-world. Ticket prices started at $100,000 a pair, according to an invitation obtained by Bloomberg, with that sum paying for dinner and a photo op with President Trump. High-rollers forking over $250,000 get to participate in a roundtable.

wow, fuck every single person in the room

i kind of think he might just go anyway.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DT9F4yVXUAAUXGi.jpg

hmm

Trump probably thanks a government shutdown means he doesn't have to go to work. Even less than usual.

god the NYT is awful, the GOP didn't even have the votes in their own caucus

hey everybody, we have no government now

The Purge is on!!!

also via their daily propaganda eblast:

Life Is Winning in America

In National Review, Vice President Mike Pence writes that “since the outset of this administration, we’ve taken historic action to protect the most vulnerable in our society.”

“In short, life is winning in America again,” the Vice President Pence explains. “It’s winning because of the policies of our administration, and because of the commitment and compassion of those who gather today in our nation’s capital, and in marches, meetings, and homes all across the country.”

these cowardly fucks

we’ve taken historic action to protect the most vulnerable in our society.

Did this man even look at the AHCA that Ryan tried to foist on us?

LIFE IS WINNING is the dumbest slogan in the history of giant ministerial ziggurats

Happy Anniversary Mister President!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/20/with-government-shutdown-republicans-reap-what-they-sow

Uggggggghh. This is not the news I wanted to wake up to.

Why do I have a terrible feeling this shutdown is gonna last a lot longer than the other ones?

good mourning!

Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead. #WeNeedMoreRepublicansIn18 in order to power through mess!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

This is the One Year Anniversary of my Presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present. #DemocratShutdown

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

For those asking, the Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and they need 60. That is why we need to win more Republicans in 2018 Election! We can then be even tougher on Crime (and Border), and even better to our Military & Veterans!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

#AMERICA FIRST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018

the Republican "no"s btw:

Arizona

Sen. Jeff Flake, Republican: NO

Kentucky

Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican: NO
Sen. Rand Paul, Republican: NO

South Carolina

Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican NO

Utah

Sen. Mike Lee, Republican: NO

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/politics/senate-vote-government-shutdown/index.html

the Way he misuses Capitals makes me Want to jam a Screwdriver in my Ear

McConnell's no is procedural, I think

Dems need to loudly get out in front of this and lay this firmly at the feet of the Idiot in Chief, who has called for a shutdown in the recent past, who has destroyed seemingly bipartisan prospects for compromise and who, most importantly, has yet to make a clear case for what it is he wants, exactly. Don't let him dodge. They even have GOP colleagues on record confused about his position.

Anyway, who cares about a shutdown. Even when government's working it's barely working, so where's the harm in working less. Send these dummies to their room and make them think about what they've done.

government shutdown bonus: if it's still going on Tuesday 1/30 then donnie dodges a bullet ~ no 'state of the union' address?

Dems will absolutely not get out in front of this and I suspect I’ll take a lot of the blame in a way that’s typically been laid at the feet of GOP in previous shutdowns.

Their messaging is absolute shit.

suspect *will take

All they have to say is put Graham/Durbin up for a vote.

All they have to say is put a clean bill up for a vote, on DACA, on CHIP, on all sorts of stuff.

But that won't happen, because the House GOP won't go for it, and McConnell won't put it up for a vote for any of it up in the Senate (despite support) in a show of misguided solidarity. Don't really see how this resolves, given the Dem distrust of the WH, the right-tilt of the house and the disingenuousness of the GOP senate. I do think Dems will take the heat, but no more so than the GOP ("both sides!"), but I think Trump will get hit the hardest.

And per the Times, in a few months people will have forgotten it ever happened.

I won't blame you will <3

In the meantime, I hope people turn out in force today. I know many of my family and friends will be marching.

I don't know -- Schumer looks and sounds mad here. It could be performative anger but whatever

thank u Evan you were the only one

Again, seriously don't get it. There are people in charge of government agencies right now who have pledged in the past to destroy the very agencies they are running. There are countless unfilled positions in the government, and other places (like State and Justice) reportedly shedding staff at historic rates and unable to hire. Add to that an inability to govern, from the chief executive down, and the government has sort of been operating in de facto semi-shutdown mode for months.