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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1035879334781878273?s=19

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Eej posted:

a pick me up after that

That statue appears fixed to me!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
"Texas now smells like Long Island"

https://twitter.com/WDRBNews/status/1035682398061686787

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Expect REALLY weird tweets today.

https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1036626131632443392?s=19

It's 91 degrees with a chance of thunderstorms in DC, he likely didn't know :v:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
hehe

https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1036986290011394048?s=19

It's still all bullshit theatre as Republicans have the votes and have always had the votes.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

hobbesmaster posted:

If you're going full procedural "gently caress you" the president of the senate can request the sergeant at arms to go "arrest" senators and force them to the chamber.

Not to mention that the Governor of Arizona could just appoint the McCain replacement at any time and call it a day.

This is another one of those topics where the only way to actually fight it would've been to win elections (Senate/President) because there's always a way to break a Senate stalling tactic. If they can't break a stall based on current rules, they'll just change the rules. The game's over, we're just in the garbage time replay review.

M_Gargantua posted:

This was dumb in house of cards and would be even stupider in reality so of course it’s going to happen at some point.

If Democrats actually take the House or Senate, and the white house stonewalls against subpoenas and poo poo, I wouldn't be surprised to see Contempt of Congress arrests actually come back. Usually contempt citations are bullshit nothingburgers, but I could see that changing, but still only a 50/50 chance.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Sep 4, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
WaPo got the new Woodward book. Some tweet recaps:

https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/1036997139241619456?s=19

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1036997231084232705?s=19

Edit- CNN too:

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1036998173300944896?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Sep 4, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Basically, everything is a goddamned mess and the only reasons it's not worse are that staffers are literally stealing papers from the President's desk and not listening to him.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
WaPo is teasing more "around lunchtime" and a reporter just said "You'll want to hear this"

TAPES?!?!

Edit: gahahahahah someone forgot to say it was off the record

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1037010081810993155?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Sep 4, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

joat mon posted:

The quote is kind of gilding the lily, given this 1000 word picture:

I laughed hysterically out loud at this:

https://twitter.com/jjouvenal/status/1037012124021792768?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
John Kyl is replacing John McCain. John Kyl is a former high-level GOP senator, is currently the Sherpa for the Kavanaugh nomination, and if you don't see why that's bad:

https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1019265338096136192?s=19

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/844929071360413696?s=19

Granted, he's "standard-Republican bad", but that doesn't exactly help matters much.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Sep 4, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

pantslesswithwolves posted:

And in the meantime, here’s how our next SCOTUS justice is behaving at his confirmation hearings:


I was going to give Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt because I didn't really know who it was.

The photo is much, much worse than the text description.

https://twitter.com/andyharnik/status/1037038736155009024

Edit: Video https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1037039229140983810

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Sep 4, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Immanentized posted:

This can't be coincidental, context in first reply

It is.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1037078112981405696

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Side note: Trump basically told the Daily Caller that he hasn't done a Nike Tweet because Nike paid a lot of rent in Trump Tower.

Trump also didn't realize that Nike has long since moved out of Trump Tower :laugh:

Carry on!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
holy crap

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1037147983106777088

Addition: got another Democratic Primary upset in Massachusetts. 10-term Mike Capuano got knocked out by Ayanna Pressley. He was never challenged before, the district is majority-minority, and that's that. There's no Republican candidate, so she's the Congresswoman.

https://twitter.com/wgbhnews/status/1037148316126113792

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Sep 5, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Things tends to suck right now, but every now and then:

https://twitter.com/jessemermell/status/1037159771416276992

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I can't even google a picture of this "white supremacist hand gesture" and D&D still seems to be 100% convinced that's what it was and is melting down over it.

Yes, I know, water wet, etc.

The whole idea is that the supremacists can then say LOL U DUMB LIBS IT'S LITERALLY THE OK SYMBOL when it's obviously not.

My personal problem here is that it's a gigantic rabbit hole that doesn't need to be fell into right now. There's tons of other, worse poo poo to worry about (kids in cages, Trump statements, Stephen Miller skinning and eating girls in his basement) and plenty of other crazy poo poo going on with more concrete proof behind it.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
yooooooo

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1037388562973556737?s=19

gonna be liiiiiiit

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Yeah, I just read up on her and I don't think any employee of Stephen Miller has an excuse in that regard

hey, someone has to dispose of the skinned corpse parts that Miller can't eat or gently caress

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
What normies think is going on

https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1037413462203346946?s=19

What is actually going on

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1037413299476934658?s=19

gently caress

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Duzzy Funlop posted:

The House is having a loving Twitter hearing?

It's social media junk in general. Twitter sent Jack, Facebook sent their COO, and Google sent absolutely nobody, so they left the chair empty and yelled at it a bunch.

This also happened.

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1037359643734028301?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

mods changed my name posted:

Laura Loomer is easily one of the most pathetic people in the world right now lol.

It got worse for her.

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1037416569117335552?s=19

I YIELD BACK

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

This rules because Trump has already initiated a witch hunt (article's words) about who talked to Woodward and he's acting even more paranoid than usual, just because of that book. Then lol this comes out.

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1037429925521895425?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

ded posted:

Keep dreaming. Trump is here till 2024.

Embrace the suck.

The whole white house is currently pointing fingers at each other, Donnie is alternating between Not Mad and Really Not Allcaps Mad, and everyone that touches the presidency is absolutely miserable.

What I'm saying is that there are upsides to the suck.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1037485664433070080

hahahahah

nooooooope

man today is the best news month ever

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Edit: police chase over!

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Sep 6, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Handsome Ralph posted:

If there's one thing that's heartened me from that op-ed, it's that the overwhelming response has been "Yeah? Well loving tell us who you are or do something you loving chickenshits?"

I know the theory that this is being done to save someones career for a continued future in politics seems to be the trend but if people are responding to this with an incensed "gently caress you, coward" then it's not working as expected...I hope.

https://twitter.com/calebecarma/status/1037443445831413760

Knowing Trump, he will assign someone in the White House to investigate everyone to see who might've written the op-ed. That person will likely be the op-ed writer :v:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
You don't hear this very much, but Democrats absolutely nailed the right candidate for Tennessee Senate (vacated by Corker).

https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/1037809830243823616?s=19

Bredesen is the former mayor of Nashville and former governor of Tennessee. This seat should be red as gently caress and not even close.

Also Alex Jones got permabanned from Twitter :toot:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
NYT is doing an interesting thing where they're conducting polls and compiling the data in real-time here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/elections-polls.html

It's a really fascinating look into how the polling sausage is made and some of the problems that show up with traditional, gold-standard phone polling.

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1037891388401180672?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
If y'all are in the Carolinas, get your preparation/evacuation plans done. This hurricane path looks like a direct hit at the end of the week.

https://twitter.com/JonathanBelles/status/1038805178080735232?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
DC is already doing evacuation drills for the upcoming storm.

https://twitter.com/nbcwashington/status/1038936380704010240?s=19

NY Pizza Rat's cousin.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
FYI - Donnie forgot.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I don't know about you, but I'm pumped for 9/11.

https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1039502832397963264?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
As mentioned earlier, the storm track just shifted so landfall moved from North Carolina to the north/south Carolina border.

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1039817782500761600?s=19

Gonna be bad.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Mister Sinewave posted:

This past couple years feels like turning into that Roddy Piper movie THEY LIVE except instead of seeing everything reduced to OBEY and SLEEP and poo poo it all says GUILLOTINES

We've needed a national anthem change for a while.

https://youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

orange juche posted:

Waffle House is closed. :supaburn:

Welp, that means the storm is official now, the Waffle House index turned red!

https://twitter.com/WaffleHouseNews/status/1039606662234075137?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The FEMA administrator is under investigation for abusing abusing travel perks and not being in the office enough.

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1040193975599222784?s=19

At one point, the DHS secretary apparently asked him to resign and he didn't. It's good that nothing is really going on that needs FEMA attention!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Hell yeah this message rules those people didn't die, I'm great.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1040218305250902017?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Well good, AP didn't buy it.

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1040224801938452480?s=19

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
gently caress, this happens every time to explain the "why the gently caress did he tweet that". I always forget.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1040222947460493318?s=19

The day of a hurricane and he's hatewatching CNN and yelling at it through tweets.

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