Who has already been to Afghanistan multiple times? @SpeakerPelosi
Who has never been: @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/xYLvDooBHD
— A.J. Carrillo (@ajcarrillo) January 17, 2019
Guess Trump really *did* enjoy his SooperSekrit Iraq drop-in… he got to hang around with real live G.I. Joes, and some of them were properly thrilled when he signed MAGA hats for them. Not sure his minions understood that normal people might have different reactions…
.?@RepElaineLuria?, the only freshmen scheduled to go to Afghanistan with ?@SpeakerPelosi?, issues a statement: pic.twitter.com/AWBQ2RXH9v
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 17, 2019
Not every president has the political genius to drive home to . every last voter in America that his most feared political opponent wanted to meet troops in a war zone that he himself had been too frightened to visit
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 18, 2019
Trump is missing golf. Pelosi is missing a trip to Afghanistan.
This tit-for-tat is doing a fantastic job of revealing how little Trump actually does and how little leverage he truly has.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 17, 2019
Staff came up w Pelosi insult because Trump was mad at them bc Pelosi named him look bad.
Melania is going to Florida in part bc no staff would tell them it was a bad idea, bc if they did he’d be mad at them. https://t.co/iKrvxBYR6t
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 17, 2019
I’ll note he didn’t mind the Repub-only trip to Moscow. https://t.co/fiiMm2V5k6
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 17, 2019
poleaxedbyboatwork
It’s actually (tho necessary) insulting that Pelosi must interact with Trump.
I long for the day (soon, FSM make it so) when every-fucking-one can treat Trump and alla his minions with the scorn and contempt with which they so richly deserve.
mrmoshpotato
@poleaxedbyboatwork: By throwing rotten eggs and produce at them through their cell bars?
Bess
@mrmoshpotato:
Send them picture postcards of beautiful places they will never again see and delicious food they will never again eat.
Unusual punishment but perhaps we could sneak past the cruel censor….
mrmoshpotato
@Bess: On top of pelting with produce? I’m in!
sukabi
@mrmoshpotato: put them in stocks on the WH lawn, anyone that wants to piss on them can have a shot.
Aleta
Aleta
@Aleta: The NBC article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna958811?__twitter_impression=true
The document is professionally merciless.
mrmoshpotato
@sukabi: Can I still piss on Mitch McConnell’s grave once that time comes?
sukabi
@mrmoshpotato: yes, turtles need regular watering. It could become an annual pilgrimage Pissin on Mitch.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Take a number now. Otherwise you’ll be way back in a long, long line.
Pro tip: eat lots of asparagus beforehand.
;)
Duane
@sukabi: Tar and Feathers.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Asparagus and beer
Balconesfault
Trump labeling Nancy’s Afghanistan trip a “Public Relations Event” shines a light on how his staff finally managed to get him to visit the troops in Iraq in December.
sukabi
@Duane: also fitting as they’re trying to move the country back 150+ years.
Martin
@mrmoshpotato: Beef barley soup. Trust me on this one.
NotMax
Gotta totally disagree with Obama, who called it one of the best movies of the year.
Just finished watching Annihilation. What a jumble of ponderous pretentious claptrap.
wasabi gasp
Anne “excruciatingly painful post titles” Laurie
montanareddog
@sukabi:
Why limit it to micturation? Why not a big job and jazz it up by making it a contest, to appeal to America’s natural competitive instinct? It could be scheduled for the first Sunday in February and called “Super Bowel”.
wasabi gasp
@NotMax: Ponderous pretentious claptrap is Obama’s whole shtick.
JWR
@Aleta: From your link…
God, I hate these “people”. Words fucking fail.
NotMax
@wasabi grasp
There are doors you do NOT want to open.
wasabi gasp
@NotMax: Unless you’re making an asparagus joke, then no, all doors must be opened, all rocks turned, beans stirred, onions peeled…
TriassicSands
@poleaxedbyboatwork:
I long for the day when the only people who have to deal with Trump are prison guards and officials.
Mezz
I obviously turned off the internet news too early last night. Missed the Buzzfeed article. (WOW.)
I wonder, though: is this bad?
That seems bad.
wasabi gasp
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
I hope you’re at least willing to entertain the possibility that Obama saw something in the film that you missed.
Amir Khalid
@wasabi gasp:
Nope.
JPL
@JWR: I know.
wasabi gasp
@Amir Khalid: yep
Keith P.
@Mezz: Yeah, I’m reading this, too, and thinking “How did I miss this?!??” (I went to bed early). Given the quote from Trump of “Make it happen”, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Cohen has recordings of the arrangement and just hasn’t released them at Mueller’s request.
PS Don Jr.’s been very quiet lately. Interesting.
sukabi
@montanareddog: hmmmm, do we want to salt the earth to ensure he can’t regenerate or fertilize it and risk a revival?
wasabi gasp
@Amir Khalid: That’s not only possible, it’s undeniable. But, so what?
sukabi
@Mezz: what that tells me is EVERYONE in drumpfs orbit is running for the exits with knives drawn and are aiming to get the last seats on the Mueller lifeboat.
sukabi
On a lighter more positive note, the freshmen class of congresswomen and men are certainly shaking things up. Like Rep Elaine Luria’s statement up top. Ladies are bringing the heat. ? ? ?
Emma
@wasabi gasp: I would suggest caution in these here hills, but it’s up to you.
JPL
@Mezz: Trump seems bad, but will it matter. Mitch wants to retain his control and understands that in order to do that, he must kiss the bosses ass.
He’s afraid of the tweet.
wasabi gasp
@Emma: Getting kinda creepy, Emma, kinda creepy now.
Mezz
@Keith P.: In a purely selfish way, the timing of this is supremely frustrating, as I have a ton of work to do just now, and the siren call of Twitter today will be especially potent, I can already tell. Also, if we could please, more on the Liberty University/poll rigging angle. Seems entertaining.
In an unselfish way: MORE, FASTER, CRITICAL MASS. I’m pretty imaginative as to the misdeeds a President can do (as a US historian), and my imagined scandal is pretty dire, yet the more evidence and info that trickles out, still nothing in that imagined scandal seems wrong yet.
And that is fking TERRIFYING.
Ladyraxterinok
@sukabi: Some comments on that thread scolded her as if she were a backward HS student. Total contempt for all dems….and women.
They (she) was told to shut up and do as T commanded!
john fremont
@mrmoshpotato: Sure, and unlike our National Parks right now, I doubt anyone will be volunteering to clean it up.
plato
@wasabi gasp: So unlike your meaningless claptrap here? Idiot.
SFAW
I expect I will suffer slings and arrows for this, but:
You jackals talking about pissing on McConnell’s grave are a bunch of feckin’ amateurs. Not in your choice(s) of pre-piss culinary treats, of course. But why are all you kiddies waiting until he’s six feet under? He deserves it right-the-fuck NOW. Every fucking day.
[Note: I am not suggesting it be limited to pissing on him, by the way.]
trnc
“When you’re a republican, they let you do it. You can do anything. Be a pussy. You can do anything.”
Apologies to people (including myself) who don’t like the word pussy being used for anything besides cats and oppressed bands, but I play the hand I’m dealt.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaZl12Z5P7g
trnc
@mrmoshpotato:
Why wait (assuming he ever comes out of hiding)?
Ken
@Mezz:
There was that time he confessed to obstruction in a TV interview.
Really, I can’t blame his lawyers for wanting to keep him from testifying to, well, anything.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Well, obviously. Note I said I disagreed with his review, not that he was inarguably wrong; tastes differ.
Mnemosyne
FYI, folks, wasabi gasp is a Russian troll. No point in engaging it any further,
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne: That kind of funny. I read your comment and thought “how did I miss that?” and then searched this thread for wasabi. Ha! Of course I didn’t notice; I have him pied.