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

fuck this damn monsters and their pathetic nonsense unfriend them

brb unfriending 2/3 of white americans

We really should be taking down names for the day when fuckers like that no longer have an implicit mandate to just say whatever xenophobic bullshit springs into what passes for their minds.

brb unfriending 2/3 of white americans

And a large percentage of nonwhite Americans, especially legal immigrants who've been here a long-ass time and hate illegal immigrants as much as any redneck strawman.

yup. sad to say this is true from personal experience

brb unfriending 2/3 of white americans

idk i don't have shit like that in my feed because i unfriended them

yes. those non-white long term immigrants who hate new immigrants do exist. and they're no better than the white people who hate new immigrants. the point is that the USA makes it extremely hard to work here legally, but happily exploits the millions who are working and living here without green cards. that's the problem. not the color or immigration status of the haters.

as a legal immigrant coming from a family of legal immigrants, i can say i am definitely related to some of those nonwhites who hate illegal immigrants

but it's not like they're the voting bloc that matters

btw, there are tons of illegal immigrants from European countries, who overstayed their tourist visas and never went home. we just don't hear much about them.

been hearing a lot about that poor polish doctor from michigan

that's not sarcastic, i really do feel bad for the guy

ya would hate to be the token "see, we deport white people too!" guy

so Chuck now saying the wall is off the table, which I'm sure means in three weeks he's going to agree to sell all the DREAMers into slave labor to build the thing so the Democrat party doesn't appear "unreasonable" or "obstructionist" to racist soccer moms

!!! Rep. Pat Meehan says he never harassed his aide - he merely told her they were “soulmates” and “lash(ed) out” when he found out she had a boyfriend because he cared about her a lot. https://t.co/41PEjnkFXP

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 23, 2018

Look, no-one knows that this won't work, right?

mueller wants to talk to the smart guy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-seeks-to-question-trump-about-flynn-and-comey-departures/2018/01/23/e6652db6-0068-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.c2eb20758979

trump is going to be so mad when he finds out the investigation didn't end before christmas

Rep. Pat Meehan vehemently denies throwing his trash into the street, claiming he merely tossed his refuse onto the road.

lol no way Trump's lawyers are gonna let him do this

he might do it anyway

haha this right here

Meehan -- accused of turning hostile when aide rejected him - says he was "tough" on staff but attributes it to stress around ACA repeal vote: https://t.co/Fhv7egSQL3 https://t.co/XtSPnOF9Hm

— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) January 23, 2018

tammy duckworth is preggers, will be first sitting senator to give birth

when you get caught harassing young aide just blame obama

lol no way Trump's lawyers are gonna let him do this

he might do it anyway

My favorite bit:

Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to Trump, said he should try to avoid an interview at all costs, saying agreeing to such a session would be a “suicide mission.”

“I find it to be a death wish. Why would you walk into a perjury trap?” Stone said. “The president would be very poorly advised to give Mueller an interview.”

just do it and be a legend

"Yes I had sex with her."

*awkward silence*

"We were asking about the conversation with the Russian ambassador."

Mookie - so is New Zealand's Prime Minister.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/19/new-zealands-prime-minister-is-pregnant-i-am-not-the-first-woman-to-multitask-she-says/?utm_term=.5129565552d8

I will say there's a certain cinematic quality to the fact that Trump is on TV all the time while Mueller seems to only be seen in stock photos

idk one thing you could do is not perjure yourself

do you know who we're talking about here?

Grab 'em by the perjury

lmao Trump would perjure himself in about 30 seconds without even being asked a question

What's the Twain line? You never have to remember what you said if you always tell to truth?

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

are these interviews done under oath?

it's not perjury, it's "truthful hyperbole"

(Twain did not say that)

Ned LOL

^whoops referring to sex joke

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

"I don't remember. I don't remember."

I liked this nice little short Q&A

Q: Are you suggesting we should then not try and refute Trump's falsehoods if that only helps him?

A: No, I am not saying don't refute them. I am saying you don't refute them by repeating his language and repeating his claims. You refute them by undermining them, you refute them by understanding what you are doing and saying the opposite in positive terms not in negative terms.

you refute them by understanding what you are doing and saying the opposite in positive terms not in negative terms.

this might work on the retail level, just talking to this or that co-worker or friend. on the wholesale level, trump will always have the biggest megaphone and spread his lies further and faster than anyone else can keep up with. schumer or pelosi can talk until they turn blue, but trump will get 20 minutes to each minute they get in the media.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/senator-reportedly-had-to-be-talked-out-of-retiring.html

manchin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-the-acting-fbi-director-whom-he-voted-for-during-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/23/2cb50818-0073-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.5118bd8bb4c8

Shortly after President Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau’s acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting.

The two men exchanged pleasantries, but before long, Trump, according to several current and former U.S. officials, asked Andrew McCabe a pointed question: Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election?

McCabe said he didn’t vote, according to the officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about a sensitive matter.

Trump, the officials said, also vented his anger at McCabe over the several hundred thousand dollars in donations his wife, a Democrat, received for her failed 2015 Virginia state Senate bid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Hillary Clinton.

I liked this nice little short Q&A

its kind of funny cuz this is almost verbatim what the Dilbert guy says, except the Dilbert guy is so desperate for validation and a fanbase that he's had to frame these things as virtues - "Trump would make a great president b/c he's good at repeating lies"

there's definitely some merit to it - I still think the "Obama and Hillary created ISIS!!!" tweet was just to bait the media into talking about the failures in the Middle East over the last 8 years. I don't think Trump is very savvy in general but I feel like he's got a handle on this sort of thing. ditto for the "actually Hillary was the original birther!!" thing. I get why the media didn't latch onto this at first but they sorta played into his hands for basically the entire campaign

white trash house. no one wants to say it

Hmmm...

There’s news in the Manafort/Gates case tonight: Longtime Manafort ally RICK GATES is potentially negotiating a plea deal as additional charges are expected soon (likely superseding indictment) https://t.co/QmpZXbV6O6

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) January 24, 2018

what a cast of characters

Evangelicals are the worst (look at some of the vids/articles on CNN front page for context)

Just a Supreme Court justice sitting in on a little gop senate caucus strategy session. https://t.co/JosBnlDW0y

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 23, 2018

It’s spelled “stategery,” matthew

Anyhoo with Gowdy and Nunes leading the charge I am certain the FBI is really in for it over these MISSING TEXTS