This Is Fine

hopefully it doesn't hit the same part of texas

also doesn't overcooking make things worse?

StrixVaria

Yeah, I think the second tweet means "it might not be as bad as I thought last tweet".

yeah thats what it seems like from context

all this meteorologist slang

Yeah, more concerning would be the fact that it's largely projected to make landfall somewhere if it continues, so even if it's not The Worst, another reasonably bad storm would be pretty ridiculous right now

Fingers crossed it's bunk

2:30 AM

Meanwhile in helping

Imagine being ready to kill someone to protect the Walmart canned food aisle https://twitter.com/afainatl/status/903309366601895936

Tweeted by ArmyStrang on August 31, 2017 at 6:56 PM

4:40 AM

Dinosaur suit-wearing protesters march on Washington to protest Pres. Trump’s plan to slash the budget for national… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903322270634045445

Tweeted by ABC on August 31, 2017 at 6:23 PM

4:55 AM

@TimStone I feel horrible for saying this but "please go to New York". Or just anywhere not Houston.

5:26 AM

On the plus side, Houston traffic is getting back to normal.

It's weird knowing exactly where that stretch of road is.

6:22 AM

GOP eyeing nearly $1 billion cut to Harvey disaster funds to help finance Trump's border wall

6

WTF

I REPEAT, WTF

how

jeez with something the scale of harvey even 3.3b is too little

now they want to cut like 1/3 of it?

7:20 AM

They're jerks

Arperum

7:48 AM

@Avery Nah, they wanted to cut that way before Harvey already.

Jutschge

8:06 AM

The thing that annoys me the most about this article is the autoplay video... fml

9:53 AM

:39760566 wrong room

Wipqozn

TOO SLOW

2:32 PM

nurse gets roughed up for doing her job and blocking police from taking an illegal blood sample

2:52 PM

This question is a complete lie; there's no such plan currently before congress (among other things). https://twitter.com/timodc/status/903616776528732160

Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on September 1, 2017 at 2:31 PM

loooool @ the question though

No average American pays estate tax but on top of that if you're somehow saving taxes from it every year you might actually be a serial killer

Yeah the threshold is something like 4 million or something like that

It's $5.49 million

Per person

So you can inherit $11 million tax-free

"maybe some day I will have that much money"

literally everybody who wants to kill the estate tax

well them and also the people who do have that much money

counterargument: raise the estate tax to 1000%

BUT MAH LEGACY

counterargument: give all your money to me

2:59 PM

Then you would have to pay 100% tax!

Speaking of giving money I guess I have to pay rent again, SIGH

stay tuned for my upcoming NYT op-ed, "Why Giving All Your Money to @Uni, not Troops, Will Save Iraq"

The government is going to have to take my money over my dead body!

Which is basically exactly what the estate tax is doing, I guess.

This is funny because they literally do that yes

I mean, at that point it's not your money though so

It's the transaction of "give all my money to my children" that is taxed

because like nobody who gives a fuck about the estate tax would give their money away when they die are you serious

3:25 PM

Oh hey sheriff Clark resigned

Trump decided not to inform people of ACA open enrollment in order to sink it. That's not the only option. RT here if you will help spread.

Tweeted by ASlavitt on September 1, 2017 at 2:42 PM

They shortened open enrollment from 6 months to 6 weeks and slashed the advertising budget by 90% so people won't know they have to sign up again

ugh

"look signups for aca are down it's a death spiral" "YOU FUCKS SHORTENED THE ENROLLMENT PERIOD?"

"look at how many counties won't have an aca insurer according to this data" "THAT DATA IS 6 MONTHS OLD THE NUMBER IS NOW ZERO?"

Also the confusion of celebrating when the house bill passed so people who don't pay attention to politics may not know that it still exists

StrixVaria

3:50 PM

> Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hired a former DeVry official – someone with absolutely no experience enforcing the law – to be the cop in charge of policing sham colleges at the Education Department. This office was literally created last year by the Obama Administration in response to DeVry and other for-profit college’s fraudulent behavior. Is Secretary DeVos just trolling us? This is astounding, and it’s exactly why I launched DeVos Watch to hold her agency accountable. - Elizabeth Warren

4:05 PM

@StrixVaria Warren/Harris 2020! Make it happen!

@GodEmperorDune and used the same advertising budget to slander it as well

5:20 PM

> Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey

Keep in mind that the letter that he was actually allowed to send was itself insane, in that it randomly interjects that Comey was being dismissed despite stating on three occasions that Trump wasn't under investigation

Trump didn't meet with flooding victims, but he will give $1 million to their relief. Eventually. Probably. https://usat.ly/2vNRgkk

Tweeted by USATODAY on September 1, 2017 at 12:12 PM

Damn, all-in on his empty promises there

$1m

Very generous

America's greatest president

Never in history of america has a president donated that much

that just brings him to -999 million now, as he's trying to steal off 1b from harvey funds for the wall.

.@POTUS on #DACA: "Sometime today or over the weekend we'll have a decision." Also says, "We love the dreamers. We… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903671694551867393

Tweeted by cspan on September 1, 2017 at 5:31 PM

Nooo I'm supposed to be able to enjoy the weekends

@TimStone The last long weekend of the summer, at that!

5:35 PM

I mean, it was obvious from everything else, but truly worst president ever

Also, not convinced he knows what the dreamers are.

@TimStone i thought he already said he was repealing it

He probably just hears that in his head whenever anyone mentions it

@GodEmperorDune No, the administration is so leaky we know about things days before they actually happen

@TimStone lol

actually that is horrific

its like retraumatizing

too real, clickhole

5:40 PM

> I even bought all the Nazi medals on the internet. Do you know how hard those are to find?

I mean

not that hard.

IIRC a friend knew a site that sold original WW2 medals including many nazi medals etc.

5:59 PM

Kid Rock accused of breaking campaign finance law in ethics complaint http://hill.cm/EqktScY https://t.co/QLrWgzpIrU

Tweeted by thehill on September 1, 2017 at 5:58 PM

lol, TGIF

https://t.co/yIuvuj3fhB

Tweeted by daveweigel on September 1, 2017 at 6:05 PM

Oh wait did he really shave it off? lmao

ps. Climate change is a lie and harvey has nothing to do with it.

-Trump, probably.

6:16 PM

JUST IN: White House won't push for government shutdown over border wall funding after Trump threats… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903682888960528384

Tweeted by thehill on September 1, 2017 at 6:16 PM

Oh wow shocker

@TimStone govt shutdown?

Yeah, Trump was going to threaten not to approve the budget if it didn't include funds for his wall which would lead to a government shutdown

But there was no way he was going to win that battle

sorry, I don't get what government shutdown means.

Uhhh

Like it literally closes

Oh

6:21 PM

People are told not to come into work

Except for critical personnel

And they don't get paid

oh wow

Didn't know that could happen

It's very disruptive because everything people take for granted that the federal government does stops happening, so then they get angry, and it forces someone to change their position

Now I'm imagining the scene in rick and morty where rick destroys economy

(then the budget passes/gets changed and everything goes back to normal and we forget about it until it happens again)

The Debt Limit Explained

►

Failure to raise the debt limit is often accompanied with a government shutdown

7:07 PM

@MBraedley ... how has america looked functional so far?

7:21 PM

@KevinvanderVelden fear of political suicide?

Aah, the people in power want to stay in power. Seems legit

user15026

@TimStone Yeah, it's a great way to figure out what they all do day to day....

user15026

(I hope my sarcasm is showing)

7:38 PM

@Avery it is similar but not quite as drastic

@TimStone except all the govt employees whose lives are messed up from missing paychecks, and the secondary effects from that

@GodEmperorDune Indeed. But he's already screwing them by cutting their raises so

@TimStone yeah :(

American workers first unless you literally work for America

I'll be completely honest though the last shut down was not bad for me personally because no one was there to schedule meetings >_>;

i never understood this weird headcanon where govt is a machine that had taxes pour in one side and services out the other, with no cognizance of the people doing the work inside it

#BREAKING: Trump to announce decision on "Dreamers" protections Tuesday http://hill.cm/yG74nTB https://t.co/1cQFGC1U4z

Tweeted by thehill on September 1, 2017 at 7:40 PM

It's a Trap!

7:45 PM

fingers crossed he isn't sending the list to ICE right now to round people up

Gonna let my guard down and he'll make a fool of Huckabee Sanders by tweeting it out Sunday morning

@TimStone I mean

we all know his decision already

@Avery yeah but he likes to draw it out to get more headlines

and the media falls for it every time

8:44 PM

Trump tweeted he witnessed "horror and devastation" of Harvey, everyone else: "Not really"

10:18 PM

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. I say it will be some bullshit an old rich guy did to impres… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903742738440519680

Tweeted by LOLGOP on September 1, 2017 at 10:13 PM

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Is that the same trip that prompted teh Instagram debacle

@Ash same guy, yeah

maybe same trip, i don't remember

user15026

Fun fun :P

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune I've always liked that poem, and I think it's interesting that it matches up well with the end of the world scenarios people are currently most worried about

"Fire" would be nuclear armageddon, and "ice" would be the ice age caused by climate change

@murgatroid99 fire and ice both apply to climate change imo

murgatroid99

10:28 PM

Yeah, I guess that's true. We could be done in by the heat from global warming, or the ice age that it causes

i also agree, it is a great poem

murgatroid99

At one point in high school, we each had to memorize a poem, and that's the one I picked because it's short, so it's basically the only poem ever that I actually know by heart (90% confidence)

10:49 PM

so LA is on fire again

user15026

@GodEmperorDune ....again? Does this happen a lot?

@Ash at least every year, sometimes multiple times per year

during the last few years of drought, some part of california was on fire for a long stretch

user15026

O.o

2016 California wildfires

june 4th through october 15th last year, according to this

The 2016 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned across the state of California during 2016. A total of 6,986 fires had burned 565,070 acres (2,286.8 km2), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Climatologists had predicted an extreme version of El Niño known as Super El Niño to occur during the winter of 2015–16. Although the Pacific Ocean’s warming water had been expected to bring strong storms to parts of the southwestern United States, actual precipitation totals generally underperformed those expectations. Early in 2016, The National...

june 17th through November 20th the previous year

user15026

.....thats a lot of time for things to be on fire

11:00 PM

@Ash yes it is

it's not like one fire in the whole thing, but fires that start up before other ones end

user15026

Ah, so like fires in series. Still not good, though

user15026

Just because you guys keep getting super dry?