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

Well, not his own. The kind he can give back or kick out.

i support the alternate universe in all its flaws if it means trump spent most of his life getting punched in the head.

An alternate universe where he got distracted and thus got domed by propeller of his helicopter

god i just want all of this to end

We are in the alternate universe.

The President once had a solid right hook. He proudly recounted punching his 2nd grade teacher in the face, and then there is the story of him knocking out Donald Jr. in his dorm.

Terrible footwork though.

http://cnn.it/2nfqlMb

oops I meant

Trump mentioned fake news at Davos — here's how the room reacted. https://t.co/bQK0kpWzCq

— Meg Wagner (@megwagner) January 26, 2018

god i just want all of this to end

on that subject, I'm paywalled but this is beginning to make the rounds and seems less than great

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-chose-to-shield-a-top-adviser-accused-of-harassment-in-2008.html?

Trump whining about the "fake news" then immediately falsely claiming that the cameras in front of him are turning off is about as on-brand as you can get

cool lets dunk on hillary again this never gets old.

Ingraham claiming the boos were at the media themselves and not Trump. wow these subhuman cumstains really can spin everything.

xpost He was like maybe her faith advisor? Anyway, seems like a minor scandal to me:

A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton’s request, according to four people familiar with what took place.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not. Instead, Mr. Strider was docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling, and the young woman was moved to a new job.

Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton’s faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by a close Clinton ally, David Brock.

He was fired after several months for workplace issues, including allegations that he harassed a young female aide, according to three people close to Correct the Record’s management.

Mr. Strider did not respond to an email seeking comment.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton provided a statement from Utrecht, Kleinfeld, Fiori, Partners, the law firm that had represented the campaign in 2008 and has been involved on sexual harassment issues.

“To ensure a safe working environment, the campaign had a process to address complaints of misconduct or harassment. When matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with these policies, and appropriate action was taken,” the statement said. “This complaint was no exception.”

So she docked him pay and made him undergo counseling. Then the next time it happened, years later, he was fired?

Smells of bs to me that after a huge anti-Trump bombshell within hours the Times is all "breaking news, Clinton blah blah ... "

Thanks again Maggie Haberman

at least when we destroy the ring in Mount Doom Trumpie is done for

It never happened.
Okay, it happened but it's not that bad.
Okay, it's bad but it's not illegal.
Okay, it's illegal but not when the president does it.
Bbbbbut HillaryObamaemailFBIRSghazi.
gollum

I think Trump is sick of Presidenting and would like to quit but doesnt want to be a quitter so he is hoping for a triumphant TAKE DOWN that he can complain about and say how he was cheated etc etc golf golf

Trump whining about the "fake news" then immediately falsely claiming that the cameras in front of him are turning off is about as on-brand as you can get

when he talks about "cameras going off" he's referring to the clicks and flashes of active cameras, i think, not that they're turning them off. he seems to have this idea that whenever he talks about fake news, the media gets really excited and photographers take a bunch of pictures. i've seen him mention this several times now, it's really fucking weird

It never happened. global warming doesn't exist
Okay, it happened but it's not that bad. global warming might be happening but it's actually good for agriculture
Okay, it's bad but it's not illegal. global warming is happening, but there's nothing we can do about it
Okay, it's illegal but not when the president does it. al gore rides in planes
Bbbbbut HillaryObamaemailFBIRSghazi. some really fucking awful thing that will happen in the 2020s paired with republicans claiming they never opposed action on global warming
gollum ...gollum

yeah he meant cameras flashing, though weirdly Ingraham and her ilk have seized upon the alternate interpretation and saying the media was booed for turning their cameras off.

doesn't even pass the.....oh why do I bother

well during the campaign he did this a ton—the inference being that networks wouldn't broadcast any criticisms he made of them. He'd say, look, now they'll turn their cameras off...that's how I heard him today

hmmm, I never thought of it that way, why point that out? thought the narrative was "I'm telling the truth they DONT WANT YOU TO SEE!!" not "hey they're taking pictures right now". pretty sure he's said "they won't even show this" before. of course you may be right anyway, this is Donald Turmp we're talking

Trump, at Davos, repeated one of his most ludicrous rally lies - saying TV cameras were being turned off as he insulted the media. He looks straight ahead and claims to see something that is not occurring. https://t.co/d6YepkeF7k

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 26, 2018

This was a more subdued Davosy version of the usual rally lie. Usually, he points triumphantly at the cameras and claims he sees CNN just turned its camera off. pic.twitter.com/hsLYuWHdAn

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 26, 2018

State of the Union address as best as I can muster:

There once was a shithead from Queens
A baron with hate in his genes
When his nethers would chafe
No one's pussy was safe
And now somehow he runs the Marines

xpost ahh...ok I guess that's what he was saying then. still don't buy his camp's spin that *that's* why the crowd was booing.

if we're doing clinton again then let's do all the hits

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/26/jeb-bush-warns-trumps-character-may-drag-down-gop-2018-elections/1067795001/

high-larious opinion piece from the Sensible Center in the NYT today (gee, v unusual)

centrist hall monitors are losing control over democracy and are super mad about it https://t.co/w4MMamNUSG

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 26, 2018

imagine believing a system where candidates have to win over a clique of big money, billionaire, and establishment party interests while feigning concern for the working class weeded out sociopaths rather than creating them.

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 26, 2018

Putin is laughing his ass off right now

Breaking now on WSJ: Steve Wynn’s pattern of sexual misconduct. Wynn is the lead fundraiser for the RNC. https://t.co/OKakaJx8ej

— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) January 26, 2018

but what about hillary in 2008

Trump whining about the "fake news" then immediately falsely claiming that the cameras in front of him are turning off is about as on-brand as you can get

when he talks about "cameras going off" he's referring to the clicks and flashes of active cameras, i think, not that they're turning them off. he seems to have this idea that whenever he talks about fake news, the media gets really excited and photographers take a bunch of pictures. i've seen him mention this several times now, it's really fucking weird

― Karl Malone, Friday, January 26, 2018 12:00 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, he's joking. Another way he could put it is "...and all the FAKE news out there- I can see all the journalists starting to sweat right now. They're panicking! Look at them. Anyway..."

I wouldn't overanalyze it. He's just being a dick like usual.

Adam NYC expressed some serious concerns earlier this week over what he referred to as the “woke deep state”

my bad on the trump camera thing - i was always completely misunderstanding him. hundreds of years from now there will be a field dedicated to him in schools of translation, trying to decipher what exactly he meant, what was meant sarcastically or as a joke, what he ever really thought about anything. even as a native english speaker i have no fucking clue what he's trying to say half the time

thank god the most watched 'news' network is here to tell us what he means 24 hours a day

message for scholars of the future: he really is as dumb as he appears. don't give him the benefit of the doubt, he actually is saying these really dumb things all the time

It's just my opinion though. There is a strange overlap where if when it appears he's joking at first he'll just keep rolling with it if his followers latch on to it. So, sure who knows.

so weird.

also, looks like a kennedy has won the honor of delivering one of the most reliably awkward speeches in politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the announcement in a statement Thursday night. They say Kennedy is “a relentless fighter for working Americans.” The 37-year-old Kennedy is serving his third term in the House.

Pelosi and Schumer say Elizabeth Guzman of Virginia will deliver the Spanish-language response to Trump’s speech. Guzman, 44, is an immigrant from Peru who was recently elected to Virginia’s House of Delegates.

The Democratic leaders say Kennedy and Guzman will emphasize that “Democrats are laser-focused on enacting policies to benefit middle-class Americans, not special interests or the wealthiest.”

wasn't there a year (or multiple years?) where the networks all broadcasted a Tea Party response to obama's SOTU, in addition to the republican response? or am i just making shit up? u.s. politics is starting to look and feel like a broadcast you might see on a broken television in the background of a scene in Brazil

they should *just* do a Spanish response

wonder if the Dems will push the RNC to return Steve Wynn's money the way Republicans spent weeks loudly chastising the DNC for Harvey Weinstein

probably not

lol never that would be rude

DACA has been made increasingly difficult by the fact that Cryin’ Chuck Schumer took such a beating over the shutdown that he is unable to act on immigration!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2018

even a stopped clock, yada yada yada

wasn't there a year (or multiple years?) where the networks all broadcasted a Tea Party response to obama's SOTU, in addition to the republican response? or am i just making shit up? u.s. politics is starting to look and feel like a broadcast you might see on a broken television in the background of a scene in Brazil

― Karl Malone, Friday, January 26, 2018 5:25 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes. the networks were so fucking dumb they thought the tea party was separate from the GOP. in spite of being run by former gop apparatchiks and voting with the gop on just about everything.

re Joe III

that this nonentity is even in Congress is an embarrassment. at least they're sending him out to die doing the response. https://t.co/3fEtaLWGER

— slackbot (@pareene) January 26, 2018

joe kennedy's anti-marijuana legalization stance should excite the kids

— Atrios (@Atrios) January 26, 2018

but what about hillary in 2008

Come on, man. If we can talk about the Kevin Spacey stuff from 20 years ago and deservedly take him down, we can talk about Hillary from 2008. (And 1992 and 1996.)

Joe Kennedy III seems pretty good. I’ve seen a few people point to the anti-marijuana legislation thing because it was the one thing they could find probably. Also his name allows for the “elite” thing.

Rep Joe Kennedy won't tolerate the GOP's hypocrisy on healthcare #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/m94eXa6dnh

— #LaquanMcDonald (@ifuaskmee) July 5, 2017

I have no doubt he seems 'pretty good' at keeping the Dem Death March going

It's an embarrassment that the left has to keep calling on Kennedy's and Clinton's. There should be a 3 generation ban on anybody named Clinton or Kennedy or Bush being elected to any office.

fuck joe kennedy