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

returning to the thread late but the re-appropriation i was talking about was like... pieces about “shithole” countries that were meant to lift them up but still used the term, or even lazy use of “make (blank) great again” / “make america (blank) again.” it just tightens his short fingered grip on this nation’s neck

“I think it is just a conversation. I don’t think it intends of, you know, all of these terrible things that people are trying to put forward,” McDaniel said on CNN’s “New Day.” “I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it’s trying to get to know somebody. This is a president who is just getting to know people, and that’s part of those conversations.”

^this would be RNC chair McDaniel

This regrettable shutdown reminded all of us that, in United States #Senate, brinksmanship and hostage-taking simply do not work.

— Leader McConnell (@SenateMajLdr) January 23, 2018

I want horrible things to happen to this person

also those things totally work

xposts I give people stock tips sometimes. I see no reason why we should hold someone to a different standard if they work for the company about which they're giving stock tips. They're just being a buddy.

https://i.imgur.com/NDX721b.jpg

somehow i missed this:

https://i.imgur.com/oeoonkF.png

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/23/senate-stick-susan-collins-government-shutdown

holy fuck

President Stick in 2020

Collins/Rainbow Dildo '20

i'm beginning to understand why schumer did what he did. whenever i'm in the room with a talking stick i just do whatever i can to get out of there as quickly as possible

especially when Susan Collins approaches you with her Maine smile and her glowing stick

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9ioOwX3mxY/URO3tXafomI/AAAAAAAAEks/jXdvZJlrk7M/s1600/inanimate-carbon-rod.jpg

In Oregon, we passed a healthcare funding ballot measure that never should have been a ballot issue. The rep who spearheaded the campaign is a shithead republican from West Linn. The NYT wants to interview Trump voters? Head to the wealthy suburbs of any city, Portland or no.

https://splinternews.com/three-oregon-republicans-tried-to-blow-up-medicaid-it-1822351473

I've said it before, drive an hour outside of most cities and you might as well be in Texas.

Re: Mueller, there are several overlapping investigations going on at once. There's Russian collusion, there is Russian interference, there is obstruction of justice (re: Russia), there is financial malfeasance and crimes of his underlings (often related to Russia or Russian interests), and then there is financial malfeasance and crimes of Trump himself and Trump Inc. It's hard to say how close we are to "the end" since there are multiple ends, and just as Gates and Manafort may be charged with more, it's possible one of these investigations may "end" but the parties involved may still be in the crosshairs for other stuff.

Compare this to Ken Starr, fwiw, whose investigations were almost wholly unrelated: Whitewater, Lewinsky, Travelgate (how quaint!).

republicans are basically traitors at this point

I've said it before, drive an hour outside of most cities and you might as well be in Texas.

of the 25 million people in texas, 22 million live in cities

get out more

i think he was just referring to redness of TX

yeah smoke some sherm

(that's not political just advice)

do people still smoke sherm ? that's was some wild shit let me tell ya

Worked so well in Lord of the Flies (re: talking stick).

i understand the shorthand and the logic behind it, i'm just tired of the gerrymandered map standing in for people doing any kind of critical fucking thinking about the place

but listen where that sherm at

in TX iirc

in terms of fraction of vote for trump in 2016, texas came 20th. it's not a useful shorthand for "very red state".

i could stand to keep a running list of my soft spots, sorry josh

of the 25 million people in texas, 22 million live in cities

The vast majority of Americans live in cities (aka the popular vote). My point is that the huge relatively unpopulated swaths of the country that are not cities are pretty deep red, whether in Texas, or Illinois, or probably even California.

And by "deep red" I mean represented by Republicans.

point taken

probably even California they don't have places with nicknames like Fountucky for nothing

Thus giving the lie just the distinction of “blue state”/“red state.” We hardwired to favor mental shortcuts & shorthand, yeah, but we go about it in the laziest, dumbest fucking ways.

all i'm getting at is the purported redness of texas (and by extension much of the middle of the country) if you go by the strength of GOP support

https://i.imgur.com/d5YX88g.png

gets a lot fuzzier if you look at people instead of percentages

https://i.imgur.com/jrBO6hB.png

xp

I saw a guy wearing one of these shirts at a small town 4th of july parade this summer and my first thought was "you are terrible at math"

https://img0.etsystatic.com/154/0/5776975/il_570xN.1092565306_hudv.jpg

the desolate wasteland that is trump country

HOOS, I share your sensitivity re: TX. I think changes are coming to the political landscape here sooner than some might expect.

maybe this country needs to be screwed and chopped
all hail west texas

instantrapairhorn.com

xpost I agree, but like NC and, say, Oregon per right above, it's going to be a struggle against red headwinds. Court decisions have been promising re gerrymandering.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump says he's "looking forward" to being interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2018

lol

Finally, something we agree on!

Even the "BREAKING" part?

Yes, I do agree that President Trump is BREAKING (which doesn't undermine the fact that he's already deeply BROKEN).

i expect a full and speedy exoneration of president trump and rexxon tillerson + the prosperity from the ryan/mcconnell tax cuts to trickle down upon us all

I predict he will not speak to Mueller.

Meanwhile, this psycho weirdo Pennsylvania congressman ...

Gonna need a transcript of Trump's statement re Mueller. If it includes the phrases "believe me" or "a lot of people are saying," it's bullshit. If, however, he said "no collusion" at least five times in the course of no more than three sentences, it's probably gonna happen and I can't wait.

He said he would take the advice of his lawyers into account. Which means he probably won't.