grotesque

like a fucking cat toying with its prey

@Unionhawk maybe don't cut govt services instead of making cops hand out cash

@TimStone wait the lawyer was arrested too?

@GodEmperorDune but how will they get on ABC about how nice and thoughtful they are for pulling someone over

@Unionhawk "from anonymous donors", it's not even the department's money.

I mean that's probably FOP money

Technically

@GodEmperorDune Yeah he supposedly made a death threat

@TimStone this is the one with the old timey racist hat?

I think you're thinking of elmer

Who represented Kessler in Virginia

@Unionhawk oh yeah thats who i was thinking of

Ah yeah it's gonna be the media genociding the Kurds, gotcha

@TimStone i heard NPR's intern system was fuct but this is a new low imo

I can't tell what Coons is saying to McConnell but it involved a lot of head-shaking and hand motions

@MadScientist is this a fancy phrase for a large fence?

Yes, he thinks if he doesn't call it a fence it's still a wall but if it's not called a wall the Democrats will go for it because...he's dumb

Also if this is supposed to be to scale lol @ the gaps

@MadScientist yeah apparently this is a bollard fence

which is what the "wall" was built of since forever

@TimStone this looks like an intern with PowerPoint drew it, I don’t think anyone with engineering knowledge went anywhere near this and provided measurements

Yeah but the President tweeted it that's the official design spec now

It's also a bit baffling to me that McConnell hasn't pushed back very strongly yet on account of this being the least expedient way to get anything done. Think of all the judges Schumer isn't blindly letting them confirm because the President is a baby

@TimStone its supposed to prevent vehicles from getting through but let people and wildlife cross

I'm not 100% sure that's what he has in mind given the death spikes tho

@TimStone i mean he clearly wants the fence to stop coyotes so really it should be like this

See, there's our compromise. We'll build a wall of these dogs and everyone wins

Except the coyotes

Imagine being a Senate page and having to sit there this whole time like "Wow all these people suck"

Oh no is that Schumer? Don't let him talk to all those Republicans

CSPAN feed why is your resolution so bad

@TimStone guys it turns out we don't have to fund the wall but we just appointed 5.7 billion new judges instead

Flake and Corker just voted yes all of a sudden

47/47

cucks

But again this is just to consider the bill so I don't know what the game is here

Pence breaks tie

@TimStone "mother wants me home soon"

They voted to proceed so that nothing else would be voted on until an agreement was reached

@TimStone was someone else asking to vote on other things?

Uhh I think it's a subtle threat to Trump

That the next vote they take will be the vote, no test votes or whatever

@TimStone trump doesn't get subtlety, he gets pouty when he doesn't understand

Flake just got up and said that it needed to be clear that the House bill has no path forward in the Senate

Lamar Alexander is quoting Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for some reason now

dammit @uni

which one did he sign, 6, death, or both

The "better" one

Notably the one he vetoed last year.

In that case

I believe it had override votes anyway?

but this court will uphold it prob

@TimStone He's defending the filibuster with an example of LBJ and D congress trying to pass anti-right to work legislation, which like, not uhhh very persuasive but okay

Legalizing an effective total ban

This is actually amazing

He's saying that Republicans are often the minority in the Senate so getting rid of the filibuster would be especially stupid but then talks about how waves happen because people get tired of one group and put in another

Which is like, 100% true but also extremely dumb that it's just so simplistic

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@TimStone they actually use the filibuster tho

dems just make deals to approve more judges

Our comrades in WV at the rust belt conference talked about this as one of the major efforts they undertook, since WV is similar to current OH I believe (20 weeks)

Unfortunately we in Cincinnati are not so fortunately situated, KY and IN being our closest borders

PA is a few hours, IL may be better situated legally as well,

legalize healthcare

@TimStone I 100% don't believe that they aren't looking at just bringing it back on a lame duck

But yeah, also anti-open shop is good actually

@GodEmperorDune this is an incredibly good name for a holiday centered immigrant outreach campaign and I'm saving it

(at the end the indication is that the FBI declined to follow up, which may or may not imply the sex ring didn't actually exist, but jfc this timeline)

Or it could just mean the FBI was like "meh", sooo

@TimStone did he... did he try to start a pizzagate?

I mean it already supposedly exists here (or the person was bluffing)

So you know, let's hope the latter since the FBI didn't follow up

Issuing a correction: I was under the impression that the options on the table in Ohio were 6 and 0, when in fact that wasn't the case.

cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/21/…

Need to read more about what got signed

My understanding is that it's still Quite Bad

Yes