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

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-would-speak-to-mueller-under-oath-in-russia-investigation/2018/01/24/edb33750-015a-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.da8be52e9630

“I would love to do it, and I would like to do it as soon as possible,” Trump said at the White House. “I would do it under oath, absolutely.”

The president suggested he was being investigated for obstruction of justice as part of the Russia investigation because he was “fighting back” and again reiterated there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Moscow.

“Oh well, did he fight back?” Trump said, “You fight back, oh, it’s obstruction.”

if you fight back with corrupt intent then yes its obstruction you fucking baby

He and his family are going to get away with all of this.

Why does everyone treat me like I'm the bad guy here because I burned my neighbor's house down? He gave me a weird look and I fought back. It's what you do.

I 'love' when people adopt a matter of fact tone when attempting to explain away their sociopathy. He truly does not understand any of the worlds he inhabits.

his colossal stupidity will be his undoing. demanding to testify under oath (which isnt even necessary) to one up hillary and light himself on fire is all time stupid.

he assumes he can buy off the judge, because that's always worked in every other situation

he assumes he can buy off anybody

I want to encourage his assumptions. Go for it, Mr. President! Show those busybodies who's boss!

Trump's entire experience with the legal system would lead him to believe that the outcome can always be fixed up to do him little or no harm. He has been engaged in dozens of civil suits, been investigated by the government before, declared bankruptcy more than once, and always come out essentially unscathed. He's never had to cope with something like a special prosecutor as capable, well-equipped, and deeply staffed as Mueller, with no limit on his funding or his scope. He should be treating this like his worst nightmare come true. He clearly hasn't a clue.

He and his family are going to get away with all of this.

I don't think I understand your sentiment here unless "all of this" is a fairly limited set of things - like the profits from sending himself to his own properties all the time are probably going to be impossible to take back - and "get away with" amounts to "die in infamy despised by everyone except the same category of hateful, addled derelicts that complained at their family dinners back in 70 AD that Nero never got a fair go."

I’ve become increasingly Maoist in my old age

the peter strzok secret society is a masterpiece of derp theater. behold stable genius at play

So apparently Senate Dems are taking DACA off the table for budget talks.

The latest @IronStache ad that's gonna run during the State of the Union next week pic.twitter.com/DRJCLuoju2

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) January 25, 2018

Kind of an abstract ad

WH statement on Trump’s comments tonight about speaking under oath to Mueller: “While Mr. Trump was speaking hurriedly before departing for Davos, he remains committed to continued complete cooperation with the OSC and is looking forward to speaking with Mr. Mueller.” - Ty Cobb

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 25, 2018

oh my god, my senator's an idiot

ABC News has obtained the "secret society" text...

It's a stand alone message from Lisa Page:
"Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society" https://t.co/qxlXSgYAme

— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) January 25, 2018

Holy shit what a fucking idiot.

Someone should send social services to Ron Johnson's house and finally set the blinking clock on his VCR.

yeah the Bryce ad doesn't quite land imo, it's missing some connective tissue

More on what Moodles was talking about, I believe?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/24/democrats-drop-dreamer-demand-with-budget-deal-in-reach-366992

Yeah, I've saw that yesterday, but nobody else has picked it up?

But if it's true, I've got nothing. That's the stupidest fucking thing ever.

Yep, that's the one, don't know if it's true, haven't seen other sources to confirm yet.

god would it kill the Democrats to actually stand for something

looks like we'll never get the chance to find out for sure

btw shame on every single news outlet that breathlessly reported on the "Senator claims evidence of FBI Secret Society to overthrow Trump!" who aren't even bothering to run retractions nor do any research into the story in the first place, these dudes are so fucking desperate

'news outlet'

I'm not sure there's a large-scale 'news outlet' in existence at this point that I'd feel completely comfortable dropping the scare quotes for, tbrr.

Even WaPo has been inducing some side-eye of late