OMG that trump tweet
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7168071680

He's distracting us from the ACHA.

And Russia.

Good thing the beaches are closed to peasants.

it's fun to go way back to like a month ago and remember the horrible scandals the POTUS was involved in. jersey's beloved GOP would make a Jerry Bruckheimer movie about this gaffe if a prominent Dem was responsible.

Shutdown isn't Christie's fault. It's a high degree of DGAF but to just show up on the beach today is tremendous.

God I wish bridgegate never happened. Would love to still unabashedly love him.

you'd stick your gob in his stomach fat man pussy and bob for apples

jerseyhoya wrote: It's a high degree of DGAF but to just show up on the beach today is tremendous.

being a troll is what I look for in my politicians, the kek guy says

There's no good reason for him not to go. Any politician who is thinking about re-election or future office wouldn't go because of the optics. But he doesn't care. It's not his fault the gov't shut down, it's his last year as gov, it's a nice weekend, wgaf. Time to head to the gov beach house.

I guess that's cool to you then? he's super fat and looks like a loogie, and being on the beach accentuates how much of an unnatural monstrosity he is. nothing about that picture is a good thing.

I'm pretty sure that if Darth Vader were real he would be somewhere in trumps cabinet

slugsrbad wrote:Good thing the beaches are closed to peasants.

Pretty sure he is gunning for zero percent approval rating by the end of his term

Tom price is a real POS - gives Pruitt and Sessions a run for their money on the POS scale

jerseyhoya wrote:There's no good reason for him not to go. Any politician who is thinking about re-election or future office wouldn't go because of the optics. But he doesn't care. It's not his fault the gov't shut down, it's his last year as gov, it's a nice weekend, wgaf. Time to head to the gov beach house.

I wrote a semi-exculpatory post about him a couple days ago, but upon further review I was wrong. It absolutely is his fault the government is shut down. I won't discuss the mixed merits of the legislation he is campaigning for, but the fact is that both are outside of the budget process, are certainly not emergency legislation (neither would raise extra funds necessary to pay for budgeted programs) and are able to be debated in the future on their own merits. The threat that he has used to stalemate the budget process is to slash integral programs, ones that he has admitted he could live with if his favored (and again, extraneous) legislation were to be passed. These are not chosen on their merits, but on their importance and value to Democratic legislators. The legislature is faced with the choice of passing a budget that simply will not end up being the budget they passed or, what exactly? They came up with a balanced budget acceptable to the Governor. I'm not sure what else they can be expected to do. Certainly they've engaged in plenty of petty gamesmanship over the years, but choosing not to do so in this case seems like the adult thing to do.

Again, the Christie legislation is not necessary to pay for anything that is in the current budget-were that the case an argument could be made. But the lottery shift is obviously revenue neutral, and the Horizon taking is to fund additional programs. There's no principle he's standing on other than getting his way. The vacationing on shuttered Island Beach, the plastering of state property with posters pointing fingers; those aren't bad optics, those are just further exposure of a petty, vindictive and selfish character.

Unfortunately petty, vindictive and selfish are apparently no longer reasons to criticize our elected officials. In fact, among half the electorate they're desirable, even admirable, traits.

No beached whale jokes?

electoral, not electorate

It's amazing to see how Jerz and Christie have fallen to the depths they have.

Don't care about Christie being fat. Do care that he's a piece of shit.

swishnicholson wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:There's no good reason for him not to go. Any politician who is thinking about re-election or future office wouldn't go because of the optics. But he doesn't care. It's not his fault the gov't shut down, it's his last year as gov, it's a nice weekend, wgaf. Time to head to the gov beach house.

I wrote a semi-exculpatory post about him a couple days ago, but upon further review I was wrong. It absolutely is his fault the government is shut down. I won't discuss the mixed merits of the legislation he is campaigning for, but the fact is that both are outside of the budget process, are certainly not emergency legislation (neither would raise extra funds necessary to pay for budgeted programs) and are able to be debated in the future on their own merits. The threat that he has used to stalemate the budget process is to slash integral programs, ones that he has admitted he could live with if his favored (and again, extraneous) legislation were to be passed. These are not chosen on their merits, but on their importance and value to Democratic legislators. The legislature is faced with the choice of passing a budget that simply will not end up being the budget they passed or, what exactly? They came up with a balanced budget acceptable to the Governor. I'm not sure what else they can be expected to do. Certainly they've engaged in plenty of petty gamesmanship over the years, but choosing not to do so in this case seems like the adult thing to do.

Again, the Christie legislation is not necessary to pay for anything that is in the current budget-were that the case an argument could be made. But the lottery shift is obviously revenue neutral, and the Horizon taking is to fund additional programs. There's no principle he's standing on other than getting his way. The vacationing on shuttered Island Beach, the plastering of state property with posters pointing fingers; those aren't bad optics, those are just further exposure of a petty, vindictive and selfish character.

I haven't been following every twist and turn, but isn't the gist that he and Sweeney agreed that Christie wouldn't veto a couple hundred million in spending that the Dems want in exchange for these bills being moved along side the budget? A majority of the Assembly also agrees with the plan, just Prieto won't bring it to a vote.