Your Taint posted:

CNN is saying Trump is meeting with President Xi of China tomorrow so does that mean he stopped pouting and decided to come out of his room?

eke out posted:

when you are having a normal one

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1068637571167780866

DaveWoo posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1068647215894331397

So we’re not going to work to fight climate change because other countries might benefit from our cleaner air, ok, got it

fishing with the fam posted:

We must build giant fans on the west coast and push all the not good air back towards china!

qkkl posted:

I don't think a healthy society should lust for cruel punishments of even the worst offenders.

Rigel posted:

I am going to charitably assume he's talking about the issue Republicans always whine about how its pointless for us to do anything about carbon emissions if China wont. Or at least he's failing to accurately repeat what he was told to say.

qkkl posted:

I don't think a healthy society should lust for cruel punishments of even the worst offenders.

Ague Proof posted:

Alaska is known for their bad earth policy. Look at their mountains. Look at McKin Denali MCKINLEY. All that earth just sitting there. DO SOMETHING.


There's this conspicuous fellow holding an umbrella on a hot clear day in Dallas:


What was he doing? Take his word for it.


Some say Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, but by that point he had already lost his will to live.

fishing with the fam posted:

We must build giant fans on the west coast and push all the not good air back towards china!

aware of dog posted:

https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1068650461304102913?s=21

Your Taint posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1068581458871312384?s=19

Looks like we toxxed a little early.

aware of dog posted:

https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1068650461304102913?s=21

Spiffster posted:

That’s fine. I extend my to the end of the year. I will also add from the for Doctors Without Borders and add for RAINN.

If we get both of them I will add to ACLU and to RAINN (both perpwalks get 80 bucks to charity)

Edit crap that’s RAINN twice... is their another one to give to to our should I switch it to another group?

Spiffster posted:

That’s fine. I extend my to the end of the year. I will also add from the for Doctors Without Borders and add for RAINN.

If we get both of them I will add to ACLU and to RAINN (both perpwalks get 80 bucks to charity)

Edit crap that’s RAINN twice... is their another one to give to to our should I switch it to another group?

Morbus posted:

Abner Assington posted:

Why is every photo of this guy looking like he's straining to hold in a poo poo

DaveWoo posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1068647215894331397

So we’re not going to work to fight climate change because other countries might benefit from our cleaner air, ok, got it

Peacoffee posted:

Well, see, the next potential sitcom moment will become clear when we know who has the office *between* them.

Lycus posted:

Is he even using kindergarten-level vocabulary at this point?

fishing with the fam posted:

We must build giant fans on the west coast and push all the not good air back towards china!

fishing with the fam posted:

We must build giant fans on the west coast and push all the not good air back towards china!

Your Taint posted:

Southern Poverty Law Center is a good one. Or Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name.

DaveWoo posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1068647215894331397

So we’re not going to work to fight climate change because other countries might benefit from our cleaner air, ok, got it

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1068664729785253888

quote:

Lee is expected to fill a new position being created by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to oversee the Steering and Policy Committee, the panel that determines committee assignments for Democrats. Pelosi’s decision expands leadership of the panel from two co-chairs to three.

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1068664729785253888

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1068664729785253888

quote:

Rep. Barbara Lee will be joining the House Democratic leadership team, filling a key void for the caucus after its elections earlier this week left the group without a woman of color in the top ranks.

Lee is expected to fill a new position being created by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to oversee the Steering and Policy Committee, the panel that determines committee assignments for Democrats. Pelosi’s decision expands leadership of the panel from two co-chairs to three.

The decision to elevate Lee comes as a group of House Democrats, disappointed by both Lee’s narrow loss in the race for caucus chair earlier this week and that lack of a woman of color in leadership, was planning to ask Pelosi to do just that.

Pelosi is recommending Lee, a liberal stalwart from California’s East Bay, to serve alongside Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the panel’s two current leaders. Lee is currently a vice-chair of the committee.

The committee has to officially vote to approve Pelosi’s recommendations, but it is expected to do so soon.

Lycus posted:

Is he even using kindergarten-level vocabulary at this point?

Your Taint posted:

Southern Poverty Law Center is a good one. Or Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name.

theblackw0lf posted:

The chance of AOC getting a prime committee position just went up considerably.

fishing with the fam posted:

We must build giant fans on the west coast and push all the not good air back towards china!

quote:

House Democrats unveil their first bill in the majority: a sweeping anti-corruption proposal

Campaign finance
Public financing of campaigns, powered by small donations. Under Sarbanes’s vision, the federal government would provide a voluntary 6-1 match for candidates for president and Congress, which means for every dollar a candidate raises from small donations, the federal government would match it six times over. “If you give $100 to a candidate that’s meeting those requirements, then that candidate would get another $600 coming in behind them,” Sarbanes told Vox this summer. “The evidence and the modeling is that most candidates can do as well or better in terms of the dollars they raise if they step into this new system.”
Passing the DISCLOSE Act, pushed by Rep. David Cicilline (RI) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), both Democrats from Rhode Island. This would require Super PACs and “dark money” political organizations to make their donors public.
Passing the Honest Ads Act, championed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (MN) and Mark Warner (VA), which would require Facebook and Twitter to disclose the source of money of political ads on their platforms, and share how much money was spent.

Ethics
Requiring the president to disclose his or her tax returns.
Stopping members of Congress from using taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment cases or buy first-class plane tickets.
Giving the Office of Government Ethics the power to do more oversight and enforcement and put in stricter lobbying registration requirements.
Create a new ethical code for the US Supreme Court, ensuring all branches of government are impacted by the new law.

Voting rights
Creating new national automatic voter registration that asks voters to opt out, rather than opt in, ensuring more people will be signed up to vote. Early voting and online voter registration would also be promoted.
Restoring the Voting Rights Act, part of which was dismantled by a US Supreme Court decision in 2013. Ending partisan gerrymandering in federal elections and prohibiting voter roll purging.
Beefing up elections security, including requiring the Director of National Intelligence to do regular checks on foreign threats.

JosefStalinator posted:

Take Manchin off climate and energy please.

Aurubin posted:

Yes! Push for this! Also no one tell trump that these fans are linked to a series of amine sorbents that scrub co2 from the atmosphere! Also ignore the attached factories making carbon fiber, plastics, fuels, and/or pumping the captured gas into basalt bedrock! Just big fans!

The Glumslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1068664729785253888

VH4Ever posted:

How can Pelosi do that? She's not in the Senate. Let's at least try to keep this all straight.

my bony fealty posted:

Pelosi....good??