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This fucking idiot:
President Trump said Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug whose effectiveness against the coronavirus is unproven, for about a week and a half as a preventive measure, saying he had no symptoms of Covid-19.
“All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK,” he said, explaining that he takes a daily pill.
He’ll literally lie about anything.
The biggest troll Nancy Pelosi could pull rn is to wander in front of a lot of cameras and wonder why Trump’s closest aides don’t want to defend the president in the Senate
“With the president under attack, they’re choosing to remain silent? You’d think they’d be more loyal.”
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 27, 2020
Fun reminder that the State of the Union is a week from tomorrow. If the Senate does call witnesses, which is far more likely than it was just 24 hours ago, this means that the trial will likely extend into next week.
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 27, 2020
Being in the middle of a drawn out fight to prevent witnesses would make for a real fun State of the Union. https://t.co/M4DpkM26AD
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 27, 2020
Who will invite John Bolton to be their guest at the State of the Union?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 27, 2020
Pity the poor GOP Senate caucus, upset that they were caught off guard by the news cycle about Bolton’s book rather than, you know, the damning facts contained in Bolton’s book. https://t.co/KtvjpVVob2
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 27, 2020
As one does when someone might spill how innocent they are. https://t.co/MQJEcL0eLD
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 28, 2020
I love the Hunter Biden stuff because it’s rare to have such a clear tell of bad faith. The second someone mentions him you don’t need to take them seriously. The goddamn president of the USA was impeached for deadly serious abuses. But Hunter! And they know just how lame it is. https://t.co/MM7ER7eRgp
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 28, 2020
these dopes are the only ones surprised the White House ever saw them as anything more than completely expendable human shields https://t.co/WAcmbbNWoF
— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 27, 2020
Trump didn't do the thing he's accused of doing, but if he did it was fine, and in fact that's exactly what he did, get over it, because it's not only fine, it's precisely what we want from a president, and can you believe that Biden did the same thing, shame on him.
— Peter Suderman (@petersuderman) January 27, 2020
GOP Senators need to talk to some of the Trump organization’s contractors to understand their role in his story.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 28, 2020
This is a U.S. Congressman sharing a faked photo of Obama. Not a mystery why this guy's own family doesn't like him. (h/t @KFILE ) https://t.co/S6A2mhhsYX
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2020
When the highest-ranked elected official they can find to feed the right-wing puke funnel is someone “whose history of inflammatory social media posts has made him Internet infamous”… well, I guess the GOP Galaxy Brains are busy looking for reasons not to replace the Oval Office Occupant…
U.S. congressman sharing a fake photo. This photoshopped from Obama meeting India's prime minister. https://t.co/7UMjyPwFDQ pic.twitter.com/ckRZx3ktok
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) January 6, 2020
99% of engagement with the fake Obama-Rouhani photoshop will be with people debunking it. 0% of the people who believe it will ever see those debunking efforts.
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 6, 2020
Here are some undoctored images you can use instead of spreading the fake one of Obama and Rouhani. pic.twitter.com/gQPc8JHRMG
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) January 6, 2020
ETA:
Four out of ten Repubs are lying (at least to themselves)…
Nearly 4-in-10 Republicans day they were familiar with Soleimani before his death; that group also overwhelmingly thinks the strike that killed him was carefully planned. https://t.co/Cs2hd1gIWb pic.twitter.com/EMG6uR1tTc
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 7, 2020
— ForeverBlue🌊🌊🌊 (@absolutelyenuff) January 7, 2020
Repub Venality Open Thread: It’s Not Even “Quality” BS, These DaysPost + Comments (13)
To continue Betty’s theme.
This article this morning by Jay Rosen was a scathing rebuke of Chuck Todd and the inside-the-beltway media crap:
‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press.
Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.
Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.
I honestly didn’t even know what to highlight for you. It’s all damning. Click here to read the entire piece at PressThink.org
BREAKING: House Judiciary panel pushes vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump to Friday. Follow our full coverage. https://t.co/I5t8PCsUD4
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 13, 2019
Abruptly?
Should Nadler have spoken more slowly? https://t.co/c5AMKHHHjO
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 13, 2019
BROKEN: The entire Republican Party…
This pretty much sums it up. pic.twitter.com/Z7VIdf4QYA
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 13, 2019
Collins is mad that, after a 14-hour day, they have to nap for 10 hours before voting. This performative outrage comes complete with arm flapping and vein popping, but bear in mind that he had previously scheduled this tantrum for 11:30 p.m. and it needed to be about something.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 13, 2019
Louie Gohmert is crying… literally crying pic.twitter.com/6cWZ1CMiM1
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 12, 2019
He’s annoyed because it takes away their “dark of night” vote
— Lisa Dudczyk (@Lisaonthebeach) December 13, 2019
After days of the Republicans on the committee engaging a whole variety of dilatory tactics, pranks, delays, bullshit show votes, grotesque contortions of the truth, stompy-foot temper tantrums, and spittle-flecked ranting, NOW Doug Collins demands the majority play by the rules.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 13, 2019
Let’s draw this out all night they said. That will own the libs they said. pic.twitter.com/5kTivBlMmt
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
Just hysterical that they had their Fox and Friends “middle of the night” speech all read to go and they have to be back at work instead.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
Definitely complain that you have to work on a Friday guys. That’s the blue jeans and beer stuff.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 13, 2019
For once, I have to whole-heartedly agree with a Never Trumper.
For those of you who think impeachment should have waited, imagine three more months of hearings like this one. Every day. The Republicans were never going to do their duty to the Constitution, and would have turned every moment into a massive shitshow until we were worn out.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 13, 2019
BREAKING: Impeachment Vote Postponed Till MorningPost + Comments (60)
you're a fucking liar https://t.co/CJvrx9P5Db
— John Cole (@Johngcole) December 9, 2019
Republicans have learned over the past few years that they can simply lie about everything and there is no penalty. The media won’t correct them, and if they do, they will just go to friendly media outlets. Their followers won’t punish them- they will just repeat the lies. Their peers are out there lying with them. And the voters can’t correct the situation, because the Republicans have rigged their districts to the point that you can be charged with multiple felonies and you’ll get elected anyway (see Duncan Hunter).
I honestly don’t know what can be done about this.
Sounds like they were psychic. https://t.co/8095Fjx2H4
— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) November 19, 2019
Stephanie Grisham may be a worse person than Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 20, 2019
“Lord, make my enemies ridiculous”…
but really it was totally uncalled for for Obama's outgoing chief of staff to put saran wrap on all the toilets. Steve Bannon nearly suffocated.
— Gator MaClunkey (@Zeddary) November 19, 2019
Jon Chait at NYMag: Suuure, Jan…
… Then there are the notes. Trump loves promoting the narrative that President Obama left “a mess” for him to clean up, and engineered deep state conspiracies to undermine him starting in 2016. Trump has floated the most bizarre conspiracy theories about Obama sabotage, including the claim that Obama tapped his phones. Trump would be extremely happy to circulate photos of any such “you will fail” notes, and any aid who produced such a note would have instantly become Trump’s momentary favorite. Yet nobody has produced any evidence of these notes, even though they were supposedly left throughout the building…
Backlash, per the Washington Post:
… Grisham made the initial allegation during an interview with the John Fredericks radio show after the host asked her why the Trump White House had failed to fully staff the administration with loyalists from its earliest days.
Grisham responded by alleging that the administration faced an uphill battle from the very beginning, including open disdain from Obama aides who left behind hostile messages as they departed their offices…
In response to Obama aides pushing back on her allegations, Grisham issued a statement softening her initial claims and calling the controversy “silly.”
“I’m not sure where their offices were, and certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue,” Grisham said. “I was talking specifically (and honestly) about our experience in the lower press office — nowhere else. I don’t know why everyone is so sensitive!”…
Can’t You People take a joke?
ICYMI Snark Break Open Thread: WH Press Secretary: <em>Look, A Jackalope! </em>Post + Comments (26)