Brave of marco to defeat the entire premise of his own bill with a single sentence

Jones, Manchin, Menendez, and Sinema voting yea, McConnel voting nay because senate rules stuff I think

I assume a portion of the D nays are also "it's the shutdown what why would we do this now"

As I read it, the overall effect of section 402 would have been "If businesses boycott Israel in a particular way, States can choose not to do business with them or invest in them". Not that that's OK, but saying that it would block people from boycotting isn't really accurate, and it's a severe overreaction to say that it's a violation of the first amendment or that the people who voted for it are traitors (as half of that twitter thread is claiming)

It allows states to blacklist people and companies for taking a moral position, which, come on.

> "We need to raise $500,000 in ONE DAY. I want to know who stood with me when it mattered most so I’ve asked my team to send me a list of EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT who donates to the Official Secure the Border Fund," read the email written in Trump's name.

> I’ve asked my team to send me a list of EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT who donates

any guesses what kind of kick backs those people are going to be getting

@Memor-X uhhhhh why would you photoshop this? it's so weird

@Unionhawk this was part of the "block everything except stuff to reopen the govt" or nah?

@GodEmperorDune I assume a segment of it was, I do not know how large of a segment it was

@GodEmperorDune because can't have the prime minister look like the filthy convicts with scuffy shoes lol

@Unionhawk given senate democrats, i don't think BDS was why they blocked it

Yeah I have a feeling that segment was 45 members big

@Unionhawk yep, if he votes yes and it fails he can't resubmit it

Which has cool mechanics in conjunction with "motion to reconsider"

lmao

I love that robert and his rules favor the worst sorts of rules lawyers

@GodEmperorDune lol

unfortunate misstatement and a mistake is when you say it once. not when you repeatedly say it as a fact for your argument

moreso, the fact it's corrected means it's irrelevant to the issue Sanders has been using it for. unless the US is going to turn itself into Lindblum from Final Fantasy IX where the airplanes will all go into one hole and one dock, a wall is going to do shit all about the fact 4,000 terrorists were apprehended in airports

(Sanders has been saying a wall is needed because 4,000 terrorists were apprehended crossing the border)

@Memor-X yeaaaaaaaaaaah

@Memor-X uhhhhhhh in what time period was this?

unless they are classifying terrorist extremely loosely i don't know if we have caught that many terrorists in a decade

guantanamo only had like 500 or 600 alleged terrorists in there at peak

@GodEmperorDune according to the article i posted

> Conway on Monday acknowledged that most of the nearly 4,000 terrorists apprehended in fiscal 2017 were found at airports, citing a report from the Department of Homeland Security.

whee time for the speech full of lies

@Memor-X yeah that's bullshit

@GodEmperorDune they should have something like the needle which swings from Truth to Lie

not even 30 seconds in

yep that's 4 lies already

@GodEmperorDune I literally just came here to ask if anything he said wasn't a lie

@Wipqozn he said something about drugs killing a lot of people daily and that is accurate

it has little to do with immigration, but it is a true fact

his admin isn't doing a damn thing to end the opioid crisis

@GodEmperorDune yeah it's a huge problem in Canada too

he said that democrats made him change from a concrete wall to a steel fence

"the wall will pay for itself" just wtf?

@GodEmperorDune Well money grows on trees, and steel is uh... Used to make swords for cutting trees!

here's the fact check thread

@GodEmperorDune I'm watching CBC and I they're actually live fact checking, which is great

wheeee some galaxy brain shit

wait, there's a difference?

@Memor-X he's not yelling in this one

'choice between right and wrong'. Well he's not wrong there.

He's wrong about the sides though

hey daniel dale is on CNN now

Oh I love you CBC. Wasted no time in pointing out how nearly everything he said was a complete lie.

> The Truth Needle has decided to go home, it wasn't paid enough to lean that far into lie

@Memor-X I just assumed it broke

Oh Dems are speaking

@Wipqozn yeh they were going to air a Dem reply

oh good we have capable people behind this

roll my eyes

@Memor-X @realDonaldTrump

@Memor-X glass houses, etc

I went into the office so I know very little of what happened today and I suspect that's for the best

@TimStone Trump challenged Mexico to a battle of champions to determine who pays for the wall

@GodEmperorDune actually his wording was

that's an idea! make the wall out of Statue of Liberty's, Tetris Style!

just for the next few months on the border you hear the Tetris Music as gaint cranes drop them into place

@Memor-X They finally get it finished... and the whole thing flashes and vanishes

@SaintWacko that would be because they went to try and make it so there was no point of entry

I don't understand how we banished her to Australia but somehow it's worse

I wish I got paid six figures to turn in whatever the hell that is

@Unionhawk uhhhhh way to roll sexism and nationalism in one hot, awful take so you can expense your vacation

"canada in a thong" who clears this shit to be printed?

> In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.

bari weiss wut are you doing with your friends

> Australians are also, mercifully, not in the midst of a raging culture war.

uhhhhh their govt is spilling all over the damn place and they also have racists trying to do jerky things

anyhow, any aussies want to chime in on bari weiss slandering your country?

In our defense we sent her there to be eaten and yet here she is so Australia wyd

i am on team dingo in this case

Buddy

@TimStone taken from the Trump Playbook

the same one he used during those race riots

@TimStone WHEEEEEEEEEE BOTH SIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

i do love when AP gets ratioed tho

It's just so dumb and bad on its face and they don't care and someone is getting paid for it

@GodEmperorDune can i just not read it and take Australians Have More Fun What we can learn from “Canada in a thong.” at face value and go "and we do all of this while fighting against Emus!"

@Memor-X well then I bid you g’day m8

i'm actually reading like random parts. don't see the slander to be honest. seems more like they enjoyed their time

unless comparing us to Canada is the slander which i don't fully understand

maybe there's underlining messages i am missing. i don't know

@TimStone "How dare the Democrats not agree to waste money!"

bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-parliaments-46784460

Government falling apart like a wet cake

@fredley So when would the UK leave the EU again? March or May?

assuming they don't extend

@Nzall We May leave in March if May makes it happen

However we May not

Honestly, what I ultimately hope for, considering what the High Court said about A50: 1. May unilaterally extends the deadline with a couple months; 2. May calls a second referendum: should the UK have a no-deal Brexit or remain in the EU?; 3. UK votes overwhelmingly for remain; 4. May unilaterally withdraws their A50 call; 5. Tories lose power for the next 50 years

But that has just about the chance of Trump getting 30 billion for his border wall project

lol get her, frickin' Tulsi Gabbard

@fredley Should have just added the condition that the UK immediately rejoins the EU to the deal to leave the EU tbh

Then it's a win-win! Except one where everyone already lost

@TimStone That's still on the table tbh. It would still be a massive loss, having spent 2 years bickering and dividing the country (not to mention the riots if that happens) to achieve absolutely nothing.

All while having a depressed currency, and several large companies fuck off anyway

@fredley May May leave in May?

@PrivatePansy May may not.

@TimStone spox?

spokesperson

Vulcan salute

Why are the Knights of Columbus involved and, side note, are they the Knights of Christopher Columbus or is that an unfortunate coincidence?

knights of columbus are a catholic club of sorts

> The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the explorer Christopher Columbus.

:/

I get there's inertia but that's a sucky name now that people are less blind to how horrible Columbus was.

@Yuuki No, Columbus, Ohio

> Eric Young is the president of the union that represents the approximately 30,000 employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons who are working during the government shutdown. “My personal opinion,” Young told me over the phone from his office in Arkansas, “is that it constitutes involuntary servitude.”

Strong mixed emotions about this!

@GodEmperorDune lol amazing

@SaintWacko Wikipedia says you're wrong.

@Yuuki Yeah, that was a joke :P

@TimStone and friendly reminder that the Camp Fire was only one of the two Big recent fires

i'm sure qanon is all over the typos too

oh nvm he fixed the forrest fires thing

Ahahahahahahahahaha bless you JD

You didn't quite beat Steve King, but!

Now someone else is like "Ah, well, if a Democrat can almost do it"

@TimStone lol

Full on constitutional crisis territory

Woo!

Constitutional crises for days

Anyone can have a constitutional crisis if they try hard and believe in themselves

it's official, a bunch of dipshit contractors from new york will no longer be blowing up boston

@Unionhawk Did they get any concessions? Read, puzzlepiece87

> Significant wage increase and a number of other crucial protections for workers

> Creates dozens of public-safety related jobs

The primary sticking point was the "safeguards the future workforce" bit

national grid wanted to go 2 tier

USW members were like "no"

TIL that the immigration crisis is mad max fury road

And whew nytimes

> The answer to clue 2-Down in Tuesday’s puzzle was “BEANER,” which is a derogatory term used for people of Hispanic origin.

wtf

that regular every day word

Also, "maybe we live in rarefied circles" -> "we don't hear that slur a lot in our rich white people parties because there aren't any Hispanics there".

Taking a few liberties, maybe, but "we live in rarefied circles" is so incredibly condescending.

> The original clue to 2-Down in Tuesday’s puzzle, which was written by Gary Cee, was “Pitch to the head, informally.”

Hmm... I suppose I could see that but I most often see it as a past-tense verb conjugation.

Like "someone was beaned by the baseball".

I rarely ever see "he threw a beaner".

I believe this is also about the fifth time this has happened

With some "oh hm that was supposed to be 2 words but the crossword format makes it look weird" and others this

@Unionhawk yeah they had some answer that was "GO O.K." and like wat

that classic phrase

i mean i'd think that the software that does this could just have an excluded wordlist

@Unionhawk that gamer word

god dammit

Full disclosure, I wouldn't be angry at that crossword clue that was "a weakness in one's armor" or something and the answer was "chink".

That one is at least a real word, it's true

But that's me and I definitely can't speak for every Asian/Asian-American.

those other 2 examples are just 100% fake

@Yuuki yeah but i think if you are a big corporation you would err on the side of "maybe not"

@GodEmperorDune You would think wrong, Jeremy Lin was only 6 years ago.

@puzzlepiece87 sad but true

Wait, he cheated on his wife with women that looked exactly like his wife?

🤔

protip: just don't use phones when doing crimes

@Yuuki i guess he liked a certain look

@Ash unfortunately same

@Ash the way the right wing describes immigrants its as if each of them is a supervillian with all the requisite gear and secret lairs and whatnot

@Ash The Other must be simultaneously menacing yet weak.

lol (not at the farmers but almost guaranteed Trump & co were somehow too dumb to realise that this was a function people had to perform)

"Money just magically appears for me I don't understand"

@TimStone what-if.xkcd.com/118

lol

@Yuuki ugh, rekt

Yes, the shutdown is terrible. You don't need to be disingenuous to make that point, Washington Post.

wapo story is also from october 2013

@GodEmperorDune The account that sent the tweet is a WaPo editor.

ugh damn

gonna un RT that

gonna give the washington post 4 pinnochios for that

smh

lmao

Buddy

Do you know who the President is? He absolutely thinks that because he's dumb as hell

Like surely even if you think Trump is somehow in the right here no one believes he doesn't think he gets to build a whole-ass wall

@TimStone Thanks a bunch, guy who represents a part of Houston.

@Yuuki rekt

On an unrelated note, Crenshaw is probably the most diverse candidate the Republicans elected this mid-term, being a white male with one eye.

in the spirit of not making fun of dan crenshaw I have deleted my previous post

I would argue that I'm making fun of the GOP rather than Crenshaw in particular.

Or at least that's how I meant it.

This is why I said my post

I didn't realize that guy was a rep though

all I know is conservatives got red and nude because some SNL dude made fun of him

and then apologized next week

He just whine-tweeted about it, so

Right, that

I mean it's extra funny Crenshaw up there was all "ah not just a wall" and Trump storms in all "WALLLLLLLL"

lol

@MadScientist tfw it’s definitely the dems fault for the shutdown

@TimStone WTF

I mean I think she was being cheeky and he didn't actually say that

But honestly at this point who knows

@TimStone I mean technically trump embezzled money from his father and it’s unclear if he asked before doing it

Doing crimes is how that family communicates so it works

I mean offering trump a deal for the wall last year that he walked away from, that classic unwilling to negotiate move

lol and he also admitted to Trump storming out, amazing

good idea erick

@GodEmperorDune I know there's a non-zero number of dumb people willing to go along with whatever but this really feels like a poorly executed approach

@GodEmperorDune lol did they forget to invite McConnell again?

Gross

@TimStone :/

(it is almost like the right just wants conservative activist judges)

(hmm)

@TimStone It goes bad to worse to worst.

(fascinating)

lol McCarthy is trying to say the meeting went differently than everyone else on all sides agrees it did?

Amazing

@TimStone ummm multiple wtfs here

Ohhhhh, of course

@TimStone damn this is galaxy brain but makes sense

Right? It's totally plausible and also super, super dumb, so it's almost 100% what happened

🤔

@TimStone "not a crime because i was already best buds with the criminals"

tfw you did it on purpose but not deliberately

I mean you could do something useful but not doing something bad is good enough, I guess

@GodEmperorDune This is crazy but also lol @ this

> “My mother blamed me initially,” said John. “She said I brought the internet into the house.”

@TimStone ikr

@TimStone That explains soooo much

lol

this is dumb but lmao

@Unionhawk LOLOLOL

i knew i should've taken that bet

@TimStone The last 2 years have been quite an exciting game of "8 year old or President of the United States".

> The biggest bets of the night rang in at $25,000, $20,000, and $15,000 — all in favor of Trump telling more lies.

@TimStone sadly, big mood

He also brought candy, for some reason

@TimStone that was his treat for taking the meeting

But very tough guy approach holding out on the wall but also being "made" to do a meeting despite being the literal President

lol damnit

oh good I can't wait for coach K to thread the erick erickson problem needle above

"because this is capital N capital S National Security,"

But why

Ignoring literally every other aspect of this under no circumstances should Jim Justice be allowed to do anything

I can't wait for him to get confirmed to the supreme court

justice jim justice

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@Ash because it would require more regulations to control guns

@TimStone lolwat

love too start a constitutional crisis so the government can function again

How about a compromise position of at least reopening the ATF so I can stop seeing "the shutdown affects local breweries too" in my google feed

and then everything else

also

with back pay

@MadScientist actually, didn't the price of the wall go up. i thought i heard this morning he's now wanting 7 bil

@realDonaldTrump negotiate with me you coward

could be i was half asleep and just her the 7 from 5.7

@GodEmperorDune actually yes, and take the cameras to film how Trump never returns

I'm like 50/50 that Pelosi should have just said yes to "We'll fund the wall later" and then just not followed through

Because Trump would probably believe that

somebody else would have kept track

@TimStone i'm 50/50 that if that was the case, the price of the wall would go up

@Unionhawk Yeah but like nobody has to do anything, f 'em

and it would be a wall, not a fence

^ that though is 100/0

lmfao

what

@TimStone wouldn't this be a win then? Trump said the wall would be paid for by Mexico through NAFTA, no NAFTA then no payment to the wall and thus no wall

@TimStone mcconnell style

dems are bad at lying tho

True

@Memor-X no, he said its through the new nafta, the USMCA

so grassley is saying that if the USMCA doesn't pass, pull out of NAFTA to ruin all trade for the 3 countries

@Memor-X I mean it's certainly not a logical thing to do

@TimStone u wot m8

And lest you think it's possibly not explicit, lol

> “We don’t think he’s suitable as a practicing Muslim to be vice chair because he’d be the representative for ALL Republicans in Tarrant County, and not ALL Republicans in Tarrant County think Islam is safe or acceptable in the U.S.,” O’Brien wrote in a Facebook post.

@TimStone bro you said the racist part loud again

blinks

@TimStone uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

brb need to get the eyes that have rolled out of my head and across the building

(article is paywalled)

@Ash he'd never say it publicly though

meanwhile Trump seems to be defeating his reasons for needing a wall

@Memor-X umm wat

@GodEmperorDune no, no, let him have it. because then he has to admit that he doesn't need a wall

or at least we can throw him into an argument loop and just record him arguing with himself

If all we needed to beat him was self-contradiction we would have solved that problem long ago

arguing with himself, talking back to himself

i don't think that further stigmatizing mental health is going to do anything to trump, but it does hurt people who are not neurotypical