US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots

The president's new Twitter banner is a photo of him smiling and giving a thumbs up while meeting tonight with police officers who responded to the massacre of 17 people, most of them students, at a high school in Parkland pic.twitter.com/3NoH95CqKQ

— Mark Berman (@markberman) February 17, 2018

That Twitter thread has moronic nonsense.

Ha xpost

This is as scary as shit and so many progressives and liberals are falling for it. I don't know what we can do. Twitter and Facebook hide and demote anything that contradicts the Russia-gate narrative.

— EdgeOfSanity (@Quentin_Mann) February 17, 2018

will someone think of poor liberals and progressives like Quentin Mann

very kind of you alfred

(to mention me upthread i mean)

For my part, as a Bernie supporter, I have chosen to realize that today’s announcements are actually NOT ABOUT ME what a concept

― El Tomboto, Saturday, February 17, 2018 12:55 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same and seeing that "People 4 Bernie" felt compelled to issue a statement about this mueller move made me want to throw my computer at a wall

you're one of my lights, HOOS

we literally were not talking about bernie at all until the tweet maura linked brought him up!

(not trying to imply anything about maura, just that it wasn't like rabid bernie stans, a group that does not include me, weren't itching for a fight about it AFAICT)

*were lol

anyway I saw the first "chapo is russian" take today so that was inevitable

For my part, as a Bernie supporter, I have chosen to realize that today’s announcements are actually NOT ABOUT ME what a concept

― El Tomboto

It’s kind of about them though if people are going to be suspecting all left opposition of being a russian psy op now

anyway, this better end up with trump getting indicted for something

that would be nice

These indictments provide political cover for the investigation, and may provide additional witnesses.

Peeling an onion. Just like his Enron investigation.

Better be

Honestly, we may come into an impasse in which many involved in the campaign (certainly Manafort and Jr.) are indicted for conspiracy against the U.S., but there is nothing that rises to "high crimes" from DJT himself. I believe there will be money laundering charges generally unrelated to the campaign, going back decades, and I'm not sure that's within Mueller's scope.

The best I hope for from this administration is that its crippled from committing further harm. A DJT indictment isn't neccessary for that.

The best I hope for for the investigation is that it causes any future narcissist opportunists to realize that campaigning for the presidency isn't a marketing move, and will put everything they or their associates have ever done under a microscope. We don't need all politicians to be saints, but we deserve better than the devil incarnate.

but there is nothing that rises to "high crimes" from DJT himself

At least no evidence that connects him directly. He has a very limited inner circle who would probably have to testify against him, if he is ever to be tied in directly to the Russian tampering. I think it's not too likely Don Jr., Ivanka or Jared are going to turn state's evidence against him. Manafort probably expects a pardon. Flynn may not know enough to nail Trump without corroboration from others or unassailable documentary evidence.

We'll see.

I’m not sure whether or not this is horrifying, inevitable, or horrifying that it was inevitablehttps://t.co/rubwCTGBmS

— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) February 18, 2018

aaah fuck this president.

Obviously at this point a twitter jokester will post a screenshot of an e-mail from Mueller demanding that the FBI reassign all Florida personnel to the Trump investigation, and within a week 25 percent of the country will believe it.

I don’t really care about the FBI. It’s a reactionary organization, but I’d venture a guess that they were too busy spying on Black activists and entrapping people to get to this call. That’s their back to basics program, honestly.

— Dominick (@FanonsDream) February 18, 2018

one thing that's important to keep in mind with the FBI is that the agents working on the trump case are also the only people capable of handling tips about potential mass shooters in the Florida office.

SO the prez pretty much blamed the school shooting on the Russia investigation today

I definitely disagree him on that one.

so good of simon h to share the absolute worst tweets and threads so i know to avoid them if i see them in the wild. you and morbs are doing the lord's work.

How long before Trump exploits the failures of the FBI in this case?

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 16 February 2018 13:56 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought it would be within the week. Of course he's never going to shut up about this now.

lmao stevie, regardless of yr politics, if you earnestly think Dominick's tweet there represents anything near the worst of twitter you're in for a shock

Did he get locked in the shitter this morning?

17 kids were murdered

this is our president tonight pic.twitter.com/bShXe55ucs

— Tim Dickinson (@7im) February 18, 2018

Eh -- this line of attack is lame. We're back to criticizing Dubya for playing golf as if that's the problem.

yeah the "have you no decency" line won't change anyone's mind

we all already know the answer

But there are other people than those who needs to change their minds or die.

It's really not hard to ditch the lines of attack that will never work

Having students protest gun massacres every damn day is one good start

You guys are so hard on him, it's pretty obvious to me that he is being very strong in public, putting up a good front, and that the second the cameras are off and he's somewhere private, he just breaks down in tears. That's why he is reportedly such a homebody. He likes hanging at his own places because he knows all the hideaways where he can escape and just have a good cry.

Same with those porn stars and Playboy models. He just wanted someone to talk to, man. Someone like him, who knows what it's like to be objectified, to be dismissed as stupid or nothing but good looks, to hurt. Someone real. If it turned to sex that's just because of the close, honest connection they established, over shared experiences, over the disrespect born of being self-made but mocked by peers as a poseur or fake, over the dark strains of self-loathing that stem from growing up in a tough family where love came conditionally and at a premium.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves for ignoring his clear pain just to score easy laughs and cheap political points.

he asks for two scoops to feed one under the table to the cutest little black russian terrier puppy he's too bashful to admit he bought himself for christmas in 2016 to celebrate the defeat of crooked hillary. tax cuts

I'm mostly just appalled that, in lieu of showing up in person to offer condolences, he's apparently just paid Madame Tussaud to truck his 'thumbs up' model from appearance to appearance.

He's too cheap for wax, that shit is cardboard.

i saw him at Tussauds yesterday. never had to work so hard to stop myself from defacing artwork.

Unravel this conspiracy:

http://citizensvoice.com/polopoly_fs/1.2142218!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_700/image.jpg

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/582653211800002e00503a7e.jpeg?ops=scalefit_600_noupscale

A well-placed space heater or discreet hairdryer, maybe?

an overheated cell phone in his blazer pocket

been a while since we've had a full on morning meltdown from the President of the United States

"Great Pollster John McLaughlin now has the GOP up in the Generic Congressional Ballot. Big gain over last 4 weeks. I guess people are loving the big Tax Cuts given them by the Republicans, the Cuts the Dems want to take away. We need more Republicans!"

i can see that mclaughlin is a really reputable polling firm: http://mclaughlinonline.com/2017/09/21/bombthrowers-com-mainstream-political-polls-commit-fraud/

wtf I haven't seen a single dime from this alleged tax cut.

Hmm, we'll need to look into that. You should've received your dime by now.

you're one of my lights, HOOS

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

lightHOOS ppl