At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

Here we go...

great news: the current U.S. economic expansion (defined as number of months without a recession) is now the longest on record!

121 months: June 2009 to present

that eclipses the previous record, 120 months, from March 1991 to March 2001.

OUR ECONOMY IS INVINCIBLE!

economy: thriving
concentration camps: full of dead kids
hell yeah, it's #trump2020 time

Some guy was on NPR yesterday morning saying the recession indicators are 100% in place

looking forward to President Saggy Pants blaming the democrats for the inevitable recession

He inherited Obama's recession

everyone, shift your investment strategy to full recession-exploitation mode! west coast office, i want you to move 60% of portfolio to whatever investment trick christian bale uses in the Big Short. Update it for the current year please! East coast, I need30% in gold bars. Shiny gold bars, buried 10 feet deep in a secret location! make sure at least 2 people know about the secret location, in case someone dies. Great lakes team, i'm gonna need 8% of portfolio in investment R&D - how can we rub all of this hedge money together to make more money? it takes money to make money - well we have money, so let's get on to the making money part! i will be taking the final 2% for a personal holiday. may our great american empire reign for 10,000 years!

blaming the democrats for the inevitable recession

oh it won't just be big baby boy and the RW media doing that.

I'd also like to point out that injecting our economy with corporate tax cut rocket fuel has only gotten us 3% growth as opposed to the 5-6% bullshit that was being spewed at the time. I guess we need to cut interest rates to 0?

Good morning!

one thing I really liked in the debates was Kamala basically saying who gives a fuck how well the stock market is doing if you aren't in a position to actually own stock.

You know you're a terrible person when both the Dalai Lama and Jimmy Carter feel compelled to talk about what a horrible piece of shit you are.

— Nathan Rabin (@nathanrabin) June 29, 2019

meanwhile in alaska, republican governor mike dunleavy has used a line-item veto to cut the state's funding of the university of alaska by https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/education/2019/06/28/dunleavy-veto-is-devastating-says-university-of-alaska-president/35m, or 41%, which is likely to result in the loss of 1300 full-time faculty and staff positions.

if you are wondering what other institutions of higher education are available in alaska, well, there's almost nothing else.

apart from creating a brain drain out of alaska, i suspect this will also affect climate research to some extent

oops

fact checkin'

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-aDMzTU4AA-F8T.png

lol what the fuck

"lmaooooo so those three actually own more than 70% if u think abt it. anyway jeff bezos is a great dude and im v glad he owns this paper along with our futures."

It's weird Bernie screwed up so bad.

what

the

fuck

A person with $250 in net assets has 25 as much times wealth as a person with +$10 in net assets.

A person with $250 in net assets has __ as much times wealth as a person with negative $10 in net assets.

So the comparison is not especially meaningful.

Translation courtesy of Google (tm):

Because the peasants always live hand to mouth, have zero savings, do not even own the miserable huts in which they live, and owe more on their remaining possessions than they would be worth if sold, it becomes necessary to lump them in with a considerable number of middle class people with modest wealth, before their "negative wealth" is sufficiently offset to be able to compare the resulting aggregate with the ultra super rich, who control most of the nation's wealth.

if u say so Yam

That’s right, The Trump Foundation gave away 100% plus, with Zero rent or expenses charged, and has been being sued by Cuomo and New York State for years - another part of the political Witch Hunt. Just in case anyone is interested - Clinton Foundation never even looked at!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2019

In a court filing, Ted Cruz says the rule that he can withdraw only $250,000 from his campaign is like telling “Rosa Parks [to sit] in the back of the bus.” pic.twitter.com/NeFwGf3511

— Adav Noti (@AdavNoti) July 1, 2019

that WaPo "fact checker" previously said Bernie was being misleading when he said that millions of Americans had to work extra jobs to make a living, because there are only 8 million Americans working more than one job and that's just 5% of the workforce so who cares, right?

sounds like their fact checker is as rigorous as the White House's

can't believe these fine patriots turned out to be horrible people

https://splinternews.com/members-of-secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-mocked-d-1836015342

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost called the Facebook posts “completely inappropriate” and said any employees found to have violated CBP’s Standards of Conduct would be “held accountable.”

Belching during the sermon is "inappropriate". Giving an employee a poor mark in their annual review is "holding them accountable". Those Facebook posts were blatantly racist garbage aimed at the very people they wield power over, and should result in their immediate firing.

And flogging

Just in case anyone is interested

noooooope

“It’ll be like no other. I’m going to say a few words and we’re going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world, and other planes, too. And we’re going to have some tanks stationed outside. You’ve got to be pretty careful with the tanks, because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks. So we have to put them in certain areas, but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abrams tanks.

“And we have some incredible equipment, military equipment on display — brand new. And we’re very proud of it. You know we’re making a lot of new tanks right now. we’re building a lot of new tanks in Lima, Ohio — our great tank factory that people wanted to close down until I got elected and I stopped it from being closed down, and now it’s a very productive facility and they do, it’s the greatest tank in the world.”

"The Best, Jerry--The Best!"

This was in fact the type of toilet we saw in the cell.

Except there was just one, and the sink portion was not functioning - @AyannaPressley smartly tried to open the faucet, and nothing came out.

So the women were told they could drink out of the bowl. https://t.co/rcu9Rt6B2x

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2019

Boston's own

Rep. Ayanna Pressley: "I learned a long time ago that when change happens it's either because people see the light or they feel the fire.

"We're lifting up these stories in the hopes that you will see the light. And if you don't, we will bring the fire." https://t.co/nlBLDXa7Cs pic.twitter.com/98XCO5embR

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 1, 2019

This is some freaky sounding shit Trump and Tucker are talking...https://t.co/NTmtmXRViQ

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 2, 2019

“It’s a phenomena that started two years ago,” Trump said, drawing a connection between the beginning of this and the early days of his time in the White House. “It’s disgraceful.”

The numbers of homeless people in the United States has stayed relatively level in the three years between 2016 and 2018, ticking up from 550,000 to 553,000 last year. But these numbers represent a significant drop over the past decade. An average of 630,000 people experienced homelessness per year between 2007 and 2012, according to federal data. And an average of 580,000 people were homeless a year between 2012 and 2015.

The president went on at some length, painting a dark picture of life in some American cities without giving specifics for how he would address the issue.

“Police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he claimed. “We cannot ruin our cities. And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago."

“We have to take the people,” he said. “And we have to do something.”

so uhh he's claiming things have gotten worse with him in the white house?

he'd say he's not mayor

he’s like the worst guy on nextdoor

Heard "this is what he's best at, planning a show, he's a showman" on the news this morning. Ok, so shutting down Reagan International airport with military flyovers and threatening the structural integrity of the Lincoln memorial with "the latest" tanks from WWII is him at his best? Happy Birthday America.

i mean it probably is him at his best, or at least his most actively destructive - i'd much rather he spent all his energy on playing elaborate games with his military toys on home soil than building more concentration camps or glassing the middle east

his least actively destructive, i mean

At his best, this marketing genius calls an 80 year old tank the latest military technology, I mean, c'mon.

So this secret CBP FB group.

I just can't

no it's cool, the cbp have promised that 'any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable' so they'll probably suffer awful consequences up to and including paid leave

And being called "bad apples", the ignominy

weird how often people forget the 'spoils the whole bunch' part of that phrase huh

9,500 bad apples

and the rest of the CBP is prob just annoyed they weren't invited to the group

CPB looking like quite the accountable upstanding outfit with that and reports from members of Congress about the overall conditions and treatment from the officers on the border.

yeah but one of those members of congress used to be a bartender

good thing the senate are only approving an extra $4.59 billion for their efforts to humiliate, torture and murder asylum seekers

I have three people on FB who posted this idiot meme about how the border crisis is all the Dems fault because they won't approve more funds for toddler jail and man do I get heavy domestic violence "look what you MADE me do" vibes from it

these fucking monsters will whinge about how actually the camps were set up under obama or how the lack of toothbrushes or food or fresh water is down to budget problems all day every day and never think twice about actually changing things long past the point where the asylum seeker concentration camps have become overt death camps rather than the covert death camps they are now

good luck usa

Those apples gave me the shits for weeks, thank you mr grocer

I guess you can't expect better from the agency we send all our bastards, rapists and disgraced nobility

so apparently there are protests against the camps both today and Friday the 12th

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised in the equivalent period during his re-election campaign.

The campaign and the R.N.C. said they had a combined $100 million in cash on hand, and that they had raised more money online in the second quarter than in the first half of 2018. The staggering total figure can be plowed into television and digital advertising, get-out-the-vote efforts and other activities related to the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump and his committees raised $54 million, they said, and the R.N.C. raised $51 million. The campaign officials did not say how many individual donors had contributed, or how many gave money in increments of $200 or less. The official report, which will include spending, will be filed with the Federal Election Commission on July 15.

a spectre is haunting the republican national committee

the tax cuts are working!

money laundering for everyone

I will restate that border patrol and ICE applicants that I did background checks for 3 years on were by far the worst category of people that needed security clearances. All seemed to not be able to maintain jobs and their ex-spouses/other parent of child(s) all tried to avoid me interviewing them.

I don't really understand what campaign $$ does for Trump. Everyone knows about him. Everyone either loathes him or worships him.

They just want people to know he raised more money than Obama.

don't they lay out an obscene amount for Facebook ads?

someday i would like to hear about all the jobs yerac has had

don't they lay out an obscene amount for Facebook ads? Russian Hackers

Fixed.

House Ways & Means Com'tee suing to get the taxes btw

raging against the NY AG this morning hmmmm

Fuck you i won't tweet what you tell me

TANKS ON PARADE!!!!!!

Some of them that plan parades . . . are the same that stage raids.
Some of them that plan parades . . . are the same that stage raids.

yo it's time for raytheon

Why is it left to @AOC and @RashidaTlaib to do this? Where the hell are @SpeakerPelosi, @LeaderHoyer and @RepJeffries? Be useful or get out of the way– https://t.co/vZwgPi0mAN

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) July 2, 2019

Pence had to cancel a trip to New Hampshire to return to the White House on basically no notice. The administration, which never ever lies and specifically never ever says the exact opposite of the truth, offered this answer to a question nobody had asked:

"This has absolutely nothing to do with the health" of @POTUS or @VP, a senior administration official tells @VOANews.

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) July 2, 2019

please naturally die

donnie's dying wish was to visit north korea

I wonder if two Asian women hugged him in the meeting room there...

could be the best 4th ever

I wonder if the Q Anon thing is finally going down

oppo dump, surely

before we all get too excited let us recall that you cannot kill what does not live

TRUMP CHUMP TAKES FATAL DUMP

The Trump White House is forever this tweet.

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

— Mike Ginn (@shutupmikeginn) November 21, 2013

Did Ivanka go with him

BREAKING: Office of the Inspector General releases new pictures of overcrowding at Border Patrol Facilities in TX. One senior manager calling this a “ticking time bomb.” #Immigration #ICE @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/bQdde1LYmB

— Gadi Schwartz (@GadiNBC) July 2, 2019

HUGE CENSUS NEWS — the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won.

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019

Here’s the email from DOJ pic.twitter.com/PdyfK0a1hJ

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019

?!

bout time

those border patrol custody pictures are very disturbing

they’re absolutely fucking disgusting

these people are being locked up in these utterly inhuman conditions for committing a misdemeanor

A misdemeanor that used to be handled as a civil matter and not criminal.

As I’ve said previously, the opposing nominee’s campaign should consult with a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to figure out how to do precisely this. It shouldn’t be too hard to trigger the final meltdown. https://t.co/EaAzGFoCef

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 2, 2019

once again, there must be some interesting dinners at the Conway residence.

Their life's work is to engage with bullshit like nothing matters, so I'm guessing dinner with them would be both boring and dispiriting.

lack of civility strikes again

I have informed the HKennedy Sch that I am turning down its offer as Snr Res Fellow. It would have been exciting to share my experiences, both positive and negative; our current political environment and its lack of civility makes this too disruptive. I wish them the best.

— Rick Snyder (@onetoughnerd) July 3, 2019

“it’s not that i was derelict, it’s the MEANIES”

i feel like the only just way to offer rick snyder a job is to stipulate in his contract that the only thing he's allowed to drink, use in the bathroom, or swim in at company retreats is poisoned water from flint (outside water strictly prohibited, a violation of which results in immediate termination or guillotine)

The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2019

lol wut ? so what is that department email up there ? FAKE NEWSES

the confusion is infuriating because at some level, that's exactly the point - attack the media at every opportunity in order to destroy trust. usually, the Fake News thing quickly splits everyone into camps of truth, depending on whether the news consumer thinks that Fox/Breitbart are legitimate news organizations or not. but in situations like this, the truth itself becomes muddy. it may very well be true that trump is still pushing for the citizenship question. he may have made one decision one day and another decision the next. he could have changed his mind. he could be just straight up lying, again.

it all gets tossed into the brew of confusion

he also takes obvious delight in heightened ability to change some facts at his whim, as president. he can see a truthful news account from an organization that doesn't like, and then change things behind the scenes so that the story is different, even in a deeply misleading way, then go on the attack about the Fake News getting it wrong.

But hey Kaepernick hates flag sneakers

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/soros-koch-anti-war-quincy-institute.html

he could have changed be out of his mind.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pocahontas TM 43ppl issues: Pres Trump Kavanaugh confirmation small refinery waivers tariffs USMCA rural health care electoral college min wage drug prices shld b on tv ads big tech Medicare climate change robocalls ethanol/e15 yr round <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/99CountyMeeetings?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#99CountyMeeetings</a></p>— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="

Pocahontas TM 43ppl issues: Pres Trump Kavanaugh confirmation small refinery waivers tariffs USMCA rural health care electoral college min wage drug prices shld b on tv ads big tech Medicare climate change robocalls ethanol/e15 yr round #99CountyMeeetings

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 3, 2019

is that English

at least pocahantas is a county in iowa and it's not about warren

looks like grassley got a briefing on SEO and thought it applied to his twitter posts too

wow, livetweeting a stroke, we have gone too far

I think what he's trying to say is that he, personally, didn't start the fire.

lol

there's something genuinely upsetting about that extra 'e' in the hashtag

elect to transformer

Speaking of dumb people potentially dying, did they ever figure out why pence I spent a year working on the meeting minutes from that town meeting, and Grassley just...tweeted it out

Uh whoops, that was the remnants of a previous post I had abandoned, combined with my sick grassley burn

post was Grassley-worthy

He is my god dad

so trump's taking credit for getting the SEAL off the hook??

small blessings

Breaking News: Prosecutors dropped a manslaughter charge against an Alabama woman whose fetus died when she was shot in the abdomen https://t.co/YykkX8Hs3Q

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 3, 2019

I think what he's trying to say is that he, personally, didn't start the fire.

Work on farm Fri. Burning piles of brush WindyFire got out of control. Thank God for good naber He help get undr control PantsBurnLegWound

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) April 11, 2009

so trump's taking credit for getting the SEAL off the hook??

off the hook for what, murdering Iraqi children is not a crime in this country

i beg your pardon?

(that's what he said, before he didn't even convicted except for the whole "took a picture with a dead guy" thing, which he got 4 months for)

respect the troops, go united states

Right, and he got off in part because of surprise testimony from another dude who claimed that he saw Gallagher stab the prisoner and so he killed the guy as an act of mercy? Which doesn’t seem like testimony that should get you off scot-free? Anyway fuck this country.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/border-patrols-oversight-sick-migrant-children/593224/

Feels like the strongest action that any groups are taking at this point is holding up CLOSE THE CAMPS signs over the freeway. Idk the airport protests seemed pretty effective in 2017?

HUGE CENSUS NEWS — the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won.

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019

less than 24 hours later, DOJ has announced that they are now trying to add the census question again because trump ordered them to figure it out

maybe they can just print the normal census and then make little postcards with the extra citizenship on them. bundle it all up in a little manila envelope

sneak peek of tomorrow in DC (only in Italian with Santa Claus)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFBLrYC2BDk

i plan to celebrate by being online and talking a bunch of trash about america. people just eat it up

i usually end up a little tipsy and making wavy flag gifs at the same time, it's one of my favorite holidays

not so fast

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/03/politics/census-question-trump-tweet/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

"The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the President's position on this issue, just like the plaintiffs and your honor," Gardener told the judge.
"I do not have a deeper understanding of what that means at this juncture other than what the President has tweeted," he said, adding, "I am doing my absolute best to figure out what is going on."

https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fireworks2.png

lol

so just to get this straight. trump's obviously racist and anti-democratic attempt to add the citizenship question to the census was unsuccessful only because he made it too obvious that the purpose of adding it was "contrived" (according to chief roberts). but in so doing, he left the door open for trump to get the question in at some point - it was almost an invitation to make a more convincing show of "enforcing the Voting Rights Act" and keep the shenanigans to a minimum.

then, a few days later, the DOJ suddenly announces they're not going to add the question to the census, that they're going to print with it.

then, the president just tells them to add the question to the census, so they stop the presses (literally?) and reverse. what trump just did was beyond "contrived", it was just a plain order.

wtf is going on here

not to mention the dead asshole GOP strategist guy whose daughter shared all of secret asshole GOP strategy documents about how great it was going to be to turbogerrymander the country by fucking over immigrants and the only major political party that isn't directly attacking them under the guise of "strengthening the voting rights act"

“looking for a path forward” is one thing, but openly defying a supreme court decision would mean we’re officially living in a dictatorship

the best case scenario is that this ends with trump angrily firing wilbur ross for letting him down or whatever

there are a lot of bad scenarios. hopefully tucker carlson can talk some sense into him

(^^^I MEAN, HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THIS UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW^^^

https://www.soundboard.com/sb/Boing_Sound_Board

Democratic source says @MelindaKatz is AHEAD of @CabanForQueens by 20 votes.

Final count has now been completed, including absentee ballots and affidavits.

This will likely trigger a full recount.

— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) July 4, 2019

Hoping for rain and thunderstorms in DC tonight

that one republican guy who supports impeachment (Rep. Justin Amash - MI) has left the republican party.

In a Washington Post op-ed that scorned Democrats and Republicans alike, Amash lamented a broken two-party system and a Congress that exists “as little more than a formality to legitimize outcomes dictated by the president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader.”

“We owe it to future generations to stand up for our constitutional republic so that Americans may continue to live free for centuries to come,” he said. “Preserving liberty means telling the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that we’ll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense.”

both sides

dude is a horrible libertarian

Have you ever met a good one???

Happy 4th btw.

https://i.imgur.com/B1cLMzv.gifv

Let's try that again:

https://i.imgur.com/B1cLMzv.gifv

Just gonna paste the link then:

https://i.imgur.com/B1cLMzv.gifv

Hoping for rain and thunderstorms in DC tonight

Dark clouds over the Mall right now. Last forecast I saw called for thunderstorms around 6pm.

osita is following trump's big party, good thread and i imagine it will get better and better

Posted up along the Reflecting Pool for Trump's event. It's 90° and this thing doesn't start until the evening. But some folks are already here. pic.twitter.com/DgW2bKKsjv

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) July 4, 2019

President Lincoln has arrived at the Mall with a rap about Jesus Christ. pic.twitter.com/YpLxb1S4PJ

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) July 4, 2019

It's 90° and this thing doesn't start until the evening. But some folks are already here.

this is happening at fireworks displays all across America tbf

they should allow people to swim in the reflecting pool

Folks this is not an autocracy this is a small time car dealership owner having a party with his buddies and offering test drives https://t.co/H3Dfwqj1zM

— 12 Russians in a spring 🌸 trenchcoat (@HorridHenryVIII) July 4, 2019

So, are they going to parade or just be there for the in-crowd to ogle?
Possibly cause less damage if they do remain stationary iof course.
But how would t get his macho display.

they should allow people to swim in the reflecting pool
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, July 4, 2019 2:04 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/VQJ7Jrw.jpg

v cool of dan crenshaw to cosplay as the villain from last action hero for independence day

pic.twitter.com/SE3g5QCiIJ

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 4, 2019

today at 2 pm eastern we find out whether they're really going to try to add the citizenship census question or not

just wanted to kick off today's posts with a seismic piece of info

“There must be a million of us,” said Ron Beauchemin, 53, hyperbolizing as he swept his eyes over the crowd streaming through security, and lined up 90 deep at a nearby hot-dog stand.

Mr. Beauchemin and his wife, Crystal, 56, who own a moving business, had come up from Sarasota, Fla., for the weekend, accompanied by Darlene Izzo, a 53-year-old accountant from Sanibel Island, whom they had met at a Trump rally.

“God sent Darlene to me,” Ms. Beauchemin said. The group had chipped in on a $25 Chick-fil-A gift card for Mr. Trump, and planned to deliver it during a White House tour they had booked for Friday. “He likes burgers and fast food,” Mr. Beauchemin said.

“I have three sons in the Marines, and I wanted to bring my grandchildren to the White House,” Ms. Beauchemin said. But she left them at home, afraid of anti-Trump demonstrators “hitting people with crowbars and throwing cement on them,” she said.

hey everyone i heard there's a PARTY AT THE BEAUCHEMINS ON SATURDAY

let us head to the july 4 salute to expensive airplanes while our grandchildren fight the anarcho-communists who hitting people with crowbars and throwing cement. come, spouse. let us print out our chick-fil-A gift card we bought for the president at Kinkos before we begin the drive north to the rally

I'm going to Sanibel in two weeks! I'll hit Darlene up.

god sent Darlene to me because of my good political views. we are gonna fuck all night

see, these Trump people aren't salt of the earth working class. they own moving businesses, and snowmobile dealerships, and have huge new F-350s

xp you leave Darlene alone, god sent her to me

i know what i'm going to find when i see the bi-monthly 'NYT talks to trump dumbasses' article, but i still click it every time

Seems to me that a $25 gift card is a pretty cheap-ass gift for a billionaire.

One of the reasons Florida is less purple is thanks to Midwestern transplants like Darlene who've moved to the Gulf coast with their god and Chik-Fil-A.

he's just gonna regift that thing to some rose bowl winner or whatever

My mom sold up her place in Fort Myers Beach because although she votes Republican, she loathed having this type of person for neighbours (the activity room in the condo was full of shit books by authors on wingnut welfare). The last straw for her was watching some 80-year-old snowbird hurl abuse at a Vietnamese nail bar technician administering a pedicure for having the audacity to ask the customer to move her feet just so. My mom believes a lot of Fox News bullshit and definitely says racist things every time I talk to her but she totally called this woman out as a racist in front of the entire salon.

wow!

Whatever else is going on with my mom, she spits nails if she sees customers disrespecting those who serve them.

Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience.

i invite you all to drive into central missouri.

actually, don't do that

xp LOOOOOOOL did that drive every year when I was little, bet it’s even worse now.

trump on the idea of using an executive order for the census question:

“We’re thinking about doing that. It’s one of the ways — we have four or five ways we can do it,” he said. “We’re thinking of doing it very seriously. We’re doing well on the census.”

we'll have to see

many people are saying

*loud helicopter noise*

After 4 years in the first job he ever applied for, Trump still wouldn't be able to pass a civics exam.

https://scontent.fewr1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/65843680_10162016791620707_1979931583599083520_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQmT7_o3pjw2_7f5SpJcJhwpdFfdHuoRJj2IHcU-Obc05L-YTEVKVr26oFePTiVdXz8&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-4.fna&oh=3c3111da97ac9fe9408c195d56de5eae&oe=5DC60E64

"look, I'm not a heartless racist conservative, but I don't think we should even think about the conditions illegal immigrants endure during detention when there's so many American citizens who are suffering from homelessness. why should people from another country be given living conditions that are better than those of our own citizens??"

hmmm ok so you think our tax dollars should be redirected towards ending poverty and homelessness?

"lol oh hell no, those lazy fuckers deserve to be poor"

Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, July 5, 2019 10:40 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My Florida drive historically has been from the Georgia border (I-75) to Daytona or the Space Coast. Some real
Deep South shit round there. And so many pro life billboards by the interstate.

so many pro life anti-abortion billboards by the interstate

ftfy

thanks Aimless

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/

"Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience."

I75 aka Pillbilly Highway

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html

one of Britain's top diplomats, used secret cables and briefing notes to impugn Trump's character, warning London that the White House was 'uniquely dysfunctional' and that the President's career could end in 'disgrace'

As I hear it, the US has a very special, close relationship with Great Britain. And yes, I can see the family resemblance.

Britain's Ambassador to Washington has described Donald Trump as 'inept', 'insecure' and 'incompetent' in a series of explosive memos to Downing Street.

Are there any countries with ambassadors who aren't saying this?

not sure where else to put this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source

Christine Pelosi made a weird tweet about that

This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may - whether on Republicans or Democrats. #WeSaidEnough #MeToo https://t.co/2mvskwQwW1

— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) July 7, 2019

“some of our faves”

🤔

our increasingly problematic faves

That’s going to need it’s own thread

Too early for next month's thread title?

faves like Bill Clinton and Dersh

Andrew, the sixth-favourite Prince.

Naomi Campbell’s in there too - she seems to have turned over a new leaf in the last five years so...

https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/66361511_10220216660429446_6528971393730609152_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_oc=AQky-zuKWYlktwjWvl1Z2jBIRL5gMuXpIXzfPw1eFhS9AC-o5NiFshdKnTsI6M_v9Mk&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=3ad331024b5a2cc402f54ae24089f8db&oe=5DBF573D

In a new book, Trump claims that he foresaw AOC's political rise. Of course it's bullshit from beginning to end. The only interesting things about this story are a) Trump's bottomless thirstiness, and b) that the ads for Evita, inescapable on NY local TV in the late 70s and early 80s, are still stuck in Trump's senile brain 40 years later.

have to assume Pelosi is talking about Clinton there. Which isn't surprising but is still disappointing and as happy as I am to see this Epstein stuff coming to a head it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy nonsense that wound up involving that Pizza place.

yeah this is undoubtedly being read as a win by the q folks but I'll be fucked before I go anywhere online to confirm that

Nance says

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got. If the left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it. As I say to these people, come to my basement. I have these signs about single-payer from 30 years ago. I understand what they’re saying. But we have a responsibility to get something done, which is different from advocacy. We have to have a solution, not just a Twitter fight.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/nancy-pelosi-pride-parade.html

have to assume [Christine] Pelosi is talking about Clinton there. Which isn't surprising but is still disappointing and as happy as I am to see this Epstein stuff coming to a head it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy nonsense that wound up involving that Pizza place.

― akm, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:21 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this is undoubtedly being read as a win by the q folks but I'll be fucked before I go anywhere online to confirm that

― gbx, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:23 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait...having not followed pizzagate that much. are you saying that the epstein stuff is connected to whatever the Q people thought about pizzagate? epstein is a billionaire so i assume he knows the clintons well - is that the connection, or is there more to it? completely tuned that stuff out a long time ago so i have no clue

Air Fuck One?

Bill Clinton is known to have flown on Epstein's plane. That's about it, but that's enough to add seasoning to the q-anon stuff.

clinton though hasn't been explicitly named or accused by anyone, the way Prince Andrew and Dershowitz have been.

it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy

so by this you meant it's unsettling that some of this ^will be viewed as^ the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy, ^by the same people who are crazy^

ok, i'm going to completely tune that stuff out again

As I say to these people, come to my basement.

As catchphrases go this needs work.

Really? Clinton has been named in articles about Epstein (Air Fuck One) if Hillary were Prez this would be the top story of the times

It's all speculation but I would also not bet any amount of my own money on Clinton being clean

Hannibal Pelosi xxp

googled "air fuck one" and ended up on this paragraph from a 2008 vanity fair article that has aged rather poorly:

In fairness, it should be said that Clinton’s entourage that weekend also included his daughter, Chelsea, and her boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, and no one who was there has adduced the slightest evidence that Clinton’s behavior was anything other than proper. Nor, indeed, is there any proof of post-presidential sexual indiscretions on Clinton’s part, despite a steady stream of tabloid speculation and Internet intimations that the Big Dog might be up to his old tricks. On any given visit to London, for example, Clinton is as apt to dine with Tony Blair or Kevin Spacey as with anyone who might raise an eyebrow.

Clinton has been named in articles about Epstein (Air Fuck One)

from my extensive air fuck one research over the past 10 minutes, i have determined that Ron Burkle is the owner and operator of air fuck one, not epstein

Yam and Bubba could both be implicated

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/george-conway-tweets-links-tying-trump-to-accused-child-trafficker-jeffrey-epstein-after-arrest/

quick reasearch seems to indicate that some think Pizzagate was propelled along by Cernovich in an attempt to discredit anything involving this stuff; Cernovich has some prior entanglements with Dershowtiz, and obv. Trump was explicitly named along with Epstein in 2016 in a suit that simply vanished.

I don’t really follow DSA at all but this came across my Twitter timeline and uh

seeing the national director of DSA unironically share this meme actually answers a lot of questions i had about her inability to support antifascist and antiracist organizing pic.twitter.com/yHBnu8FXnu

— molly 🐶 (@socialistdogmom) July 7, 2019

It would be helpful to know how molly defines the support she thinks is lacking and she desires to see, so I could decide whether it is the job of the DSA to support antifascist and antiracist organizing according to her ideas.

Svart appears to have deleted her account after this.

As well she might.

obviously the billionaire and convincingly fake-billionaire world is tiny but i was still unpleasantly startled by the arrival of ghislaine maxwell in this story

the only other bearer of the name ghislaine i was ever aware of is the huge yacht that failed millionaire robert maxwell threw himself off mid-ocean when all was lost, and of course's he's ghislaine's dad (in fact the yacht was named for her)

he bought it off emad khashoggi (cousin of the journalist, nephew of the arms dealer)

there's actually a passage in "silence of the lambs" (since hannibal has been invoked) where jame gumb talks to himself abt the exclusive yachts where he could parade his suit of stitched-together girlskins to an appreciative audience

I miss those days when disgraced pension fund plunderers would actually top themselves.

xp

That meme sucks but mistakes happen the metro this morning was stuck for a good 4 mins and myself I bought the wrong plant for my sister and I'm sure a plumber somewhere is not doing the perfect job, let's all move on and not draw conclusions about the whole DSA from one meme from one person on one afternoon. I say this as someone who is not really into the DSA per se.

I miss those days when disgraced pension fund plunderers would actually top themselves.

― calzino, Sunday, July 7, 2019

and occasionally bottom

lol!

The House moves fast. It's full of rubes and you never get much done. The Senate moves slowly. It's full of fat rich bores, and you never get much done. https://t.co/XDQL3Vg9j8

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 8, 2019

there aren't many fat senators these days

apparently trump is set to deliver a speech on "America's Environmental Leadership" today

That's a good one Karl, tell me another.

I think he means Trump will be giving a speech about how great his hotels are while literally standing on America's Environmental Leadership

He said the forest floor is too dirty and some of the leaves are 20 years old.

Make America Rake Again

You're saying Trump is a rakist?

good morning!

is the epstein thing gonna be like the panama/paradise papers where in any functioning political system it would have brought down countless elites but since we live on planet earth everyone will be shocked and appalled and kinda shrug and move on? i imagine he will actually go to jail but the fantasized destruction of trump/clinton etc will of course not happen

yeah it's absolutely gonna go down like the panama papers, or perhaps more accurately not go down at all - too many powerful people are involved, and taking them down would require dismantling too many deeply entrenched power structures

News: President Clinton has issued a statement on Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/LlTZC8j6pv

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 8, 2019

well, i'm convinced

easily refuted lie

xposts Remember when that one neighborhood kid would constantly change the rules of whatever game you were playing in his favor because it's his backyard and his ball? It's like that. Justice only ever gets done when he follows the trail of candy bars into your own backyard and plummets into the deadfall you spent all weekend digging.

Clinton statement carefully avoids use of "is"

pelosi does good

.@SecretaryAcosta must step down. As US Attorney, he engaged in an unconscionable agreement w/ Jeffrey Epstein kept secret from courageous, young victims preventing them from seeking justice. This was known by @POTUS when he appointed him to the cabinet. #AcostaResign

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 9, 2019

ross perot is dead

worst lenny kravitz single

Lol

thx to forbes for focusing on the real issue with epstein

https://preview.redd.it/yz70higdz9931.jpg?width=720&auto=webp&s=62f0ce0a0d0717d642a8bd1848f2a04465690039

v good stuff

Jeffrey Epstein, the onetime money manager and a registered sex offender, was arrested on sex trafficking charges on Saturday. As news of the arrest ricocheted across the media landscape, many outlets referred to Epstein—mistakenly—as a billionaire.

“Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein Due In Court To Face Sex Charges,” read a CNN chyron. “Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Long Accused of Molesting Minors, Is Charged,” said the New York Times.

Forbes has never included Epstein, 66, in its rankings of the World’s Billionaires, since there is scant proof he holds a ten-figure fortune. As we wrote in 2010, “The source of his wealth—a money management firm in the U.S. Virgin Islands—generates no public records, nor has his client list ever been released.”

ross perot is dead

Can I finish, can I finish--can I finish?

(he finished)

epstein's wealth is newsworthy because there is strong circumstantial evidence he got it by blackmail

Desperate times...

The crimes committed by Epstein are horrific, and I am pleased that NY prosecutors are moving forward with a case based on new evidence.

— Secretary Acosta (@SecretaryAcosta) July 9, 2019

The White House already considering dumping him?

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s standing in the Trump administration was in peril even before the indictment of Jeffrey Epstein cast a fresh spotlight on the former prosecutor’s role in a decade-old plea deal for the financier, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Corporate lobbyists and some White House officials have grown frustrated that Acosta hasn’t moved fast enough on deregulation and other business-friendly initiatives, the people said. No decision has been made on Acosta’s future in the administration, they added, though two people said that his time is short.

As a U.S. attorney in South Florida in 2008, Acosta brokered a plea agreement in secret with Epstein that allowed him to escape serious punishment for earlier allegations of sexual misconduct. Acosta’s dealings with Epstein are under renewed scrutiny after federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Epstein on Monday with sex trafficking and conspiracy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-08/acosta-s-standing-in-white-house-was-eroding-even-before-epstein

not sure how much mileage anyone can get from Trump speaking of Epstein and his taste for young women in glowing terms but obv if Obama said it he'd already have been impeached

Corporate lobbyists and some White House officials have grown frustrated that Acosta hasn’t moved fast enough on deregulation and other business-friendly initiatives, the people said

he just wasn't doing a good enough job at representing everything his own agency is supposed to protect us from

Obama said it he'd already have been impeached

obama would have been impeached several thousand times by now, if he did what trump did

nah Republicans would be too concerned about blowback lolololol

So 45 is going to war on my hometown for stopping recitation of the pledge of allegiance before city council meetings, is it?

Make it make sense, argh...

stuff like that plays well to a good chunk of his base

jeez, there sure is a lot of news about the rampant corruption of the trump administration, could it be possible that even a small fraction of these things are actually real and aren't fake ne--**PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IS UNDER ATTACK** **sprints toward bright colors and moving objects*

on his first day, bannon probably handed him a list of 20 such "issues" that could be used as emergency distractions

anyone involved with forcing people to say the pledge of allegiance should be embarrassed

people who force children to say it should embarrassed and publicly shamed

and then forced to recite whatever bullshit pledge i come up with, on the spot

a toledo salamanca?

it's a sword -- a very rare sword.

is it worth much?

only about a million bucks.

*whistles*

Ross Perot was a champion for veterans' rights and ahead of his time on disastrous trade policies. During his campaign, he explained, in depth, how he would address our national problems and spurred serious discussion. Ross Perot was a one-of-a kind American. He will be missed. pic.twitter.com/qXukirfwcL

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 9, 2019

i had missed this fun tidbit about john kelly:

And when I say close ties, we’re talking about personal rewards as well as campaign contributions. A couple of months ago John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, joined the board of Caliburn International, which runs the infamous Homestead detention center for migrant children.

(from krugman's latest column)

I think it's entirely possible that Clinton, dirty as he is, had no involvement in anything skeegy with Epstein. It's entirely possible Trump didn't either. But this looks worse for Trump since he commented publicly years ago about how much he and Epstein both like beautiful women and mentioned Epstein liking the young ones, plus he was already accused of a rape here.

"epstein's wealth is newsworthy because there is strong circumstantial evidence he got it by blackmail"

yeah there are serious questions about how this guy was so fucking wealthy given that no one seems to have done any business with him.

xp

fwiw, bill clinton was also accused of rape:

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10722580/bill-clinton-juanita-broaddrick

I just realized Ross Perot died and it wasn't an early Thursday pelosi whatever and who fucking cares. Get a grip people.

I know clinton was accused of rape, he just wasn't accused of rape in the context of Epstein, and Trump was.

the blackmail thing is wild because, like, that's a whole lot of blackmail to be able to live like that

also suggests that he will completely flip if there's anything that implicates literally anyone else

Trump was also accused of barging into the dressing room of the teen beauty pageant he held, hoping see a little flesh, I presume.

trump's accusation in this from 2016 was a very direct and explicit claim that he raped a 16 year old at Epstein's, and then that case just completely vanished. Lawyer said she received death threats. Now, who knows; maybe it was an opportunistic claim; maybe it wasn't. People are saying though! People are saying!

XP ^^Think he bragged about that, actually.

i mean it's probably just common or garden global offshore corruption, but you don't have to be a qanon person to think about blackmail in this situation.

I think about that 2016 accusation a lot, and how something like that would have sank nearly anyone else's bid for public office. Especially since her claim lines up with so many "Trump raped me" stories.

Turns out that every single one of the 24+ women who have accused trump of sexual misconduct are lying. Just like Christine Blasey Ford, although in that case she wasn’t lying about being assaulted, she just wasn’t remembering the past correctly

this accusation though...I mean, it's way more sinister and awful than any of the other ones, so over-the-top that I have a hard time believing even Trump is capable of it. then again, he's one of the worst human beings on the planet, so he probably is.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation

Erick Erickson, as clever as a fox.

If Epstein had done what he did with teenage boys and dressed them in drag, undoubtedly a number of people out to get him would instead be defending him.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 9, 2019

just a guy who really understands how the world works

to be fair, both zero and one are numbers

How soon before Pelosi outlives her usefulness to the financial sponsors of the Democratic Party and they are compelled to replace her with a younger, smoother and more adroit enforcer of the neoliberal agenda?https://t.co/tdWRitS011

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 9, 2019

I don't know. How soon?

year and a half

lightning speed in Dem plutocrat time

financial sponsors = the jews yes?

taking notes, want to make sure I have this right for when the revolution comes

there is no bloody revolution

also youre quite an obtuse shit, aintcha

besos

qanon right again:

White House pulls cartoonist Ben Garrison’s invite to social media summit over anti-Semitic cartoon https://t.co/x1sHqFoDA3

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 10, 2019

grab 'em by the caddy

President Donald Trump's golf resort in Doral, Florida, is scheduled to host a golf tournament Saturday put on by a Miami-area strip club, which will allow golfers to pay for a dancer to serve as their "caddy girl" while they play at the president's club.

The "Shadow All Star Tournament" is organised by the Shadow Cabaret, a strip club in Hialeah, Florida. Emanuele Mancuso, Shadow Cabaret's marketing director, said in a telephone interview that this was the first time the club had held a tournament at Trump Doral.

The Trump name and family crest are displayed prominently in the strip club's advertising materials, which offer golfers the "caddy girl of your choice."

Mr Mancuso said the strip club did not intend to send a political statement by choosing Trump's resort. Rather, he said, the choice was for luxury. These golfers are VIPs, Mr Mancuso said. "They deserve a VIP environment."

Mr Mancuso said there would be no nudity at the resort. On the course, he said, the caddies would wear pink miniskirts and what he called "a sexy white polo."

Afterward, however, the golfers and the dancers would return to another venue – the cabaret itself – for what he described as a "very tasteful" burlesque show, which could involve nudity.

"They're going to be clothed the whole time" at the golf course, Mancuso said. "At the venue is different."

In a statement, the Trump Organisation confirmed the event is happening and said it was for a "worthwhile cause" – a Miami children's charity. A spokeswoman said the company had not approved the tournament's advertisements before they were published.

In a statement, the Trump Organisation confirmed the event is happening and said it was for a "worthwhile cause" – a Miami children's charity.

Tits for Tots, iirc

good morning!

*golf clap* xp

i really dislike playbook and jake sherman's whole shtick

he looks like NKOTB's Joey McIntyre before he got cute.

um, as the younger brother of a new kids obsessive, i must say that MANY adolescents thought joey was super cute BEFORE he got...cuter. my sister used to tell tales of a mythical concert in which joey's voice changed during the show

uh let me point out that Jon Knight was The Cute One. Rarely is the Gay One also the Cute One.

Kim Darroch did an outstanding job as Ambassador and sorry to see he has resigned his post.

He got a raw deal from press.

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 10, 2019

...that's a weird tweet

i guess that's what happens when you have to tweet but you're not allowed to say anything that resembles what actually happened

i mean i guess he got a raw deal from the daily mail for printing the leaked emails?

The resignation happened because that industrial-strength fucknut Boris Johnson didn’t commit to backing Darroch when asked in the leadership debate last night.

I’m sure Nazanin Zagari-Radcliffe knows just how that feels.

Maybe he meant "He got a raw deal from the Pres"

uh let me point out that Jon Knight was The Cute One. Rarely is the Gay One also the Cute One.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:40 AM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He is my wife’s favorite. She also liked lance bass.

Maybe for uk pol thread, but if monsieur ambassadeur is so pissed off with boris johnson, why not stay in post a couple more weeks and make johnson sack him?

Probably some combination of 'I wouldn't give him the pleasure' / 'I am not going to stand here and wait to be slapped' / 'I'll show the world I have more dignity than that'.

this...seems...good?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/10/20687507/triump-kidney-disease-transplant

(speaking as someone who has been on and off the liver transplant list for the past several years).

Me on the flagbotherers and 45 versus my hometown:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-pledge-of-allegiance-minnesota-twitter-a8999491.html

thank god . . . an internet petition

As a prosecutor Acosta was supposed to vindicate young trafficking victims; instead he violated their trust and brushed their evidence aside to protect their abuser. Acosta’s Epstein coverup is unconscionable and indefensible. He MUST resign. #AcostaResign https://t.co/Uboc7pV7jG

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) July 10, 2019

she's still acting like the minority leader

How so? Once a cabinet secretary has been confirmed, the congress can't force a resignation. What do you suggest she do differently?

this...seems...good?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/10/20687507/triump-kidney-disease-transplant

(speaking as someone who has been on and off the liver transplant list for the past several years).

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:46 PM (fifty-six minutes ago)

i think so but idk

TRUMP: "You've worked so hard on the kidney. Very special -- the kidney has a very special place in the heart. It's an incredible thing." pic.twitter.com/JLM3uCsO5u

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2019

So reading between the lines he was told that he's suffering from heart failure and subsequently overheard someone talking about kidney transplants and the scrambled wiring in his brain led him first to believe that he needed to have a new kidney implanted into his heart and then to issue an executive order to speed up the process.

That's probably only like 1/10 more dumb than whatever actually motivated this turn of events.

whatever it was, glad it's happening

mike pence is contagious

Mississippi Politician Blocks Female Reporter From Campaign Trip

Robert Foster, a state representative, invoked the “Billy Graham rule” of not spending time alone with women other than one’s wife. He said photos could be used to “insinuate an extramarital affair.”

it's all that #metoo stuff, right boys? i can't even talk to a woman any more, i'm scared of going to jail!!

the kidney has a very special place in the heart

GOT to be the August thread title, even 21 days out

lmao I assumed that was a fake quote

Maybe for uk pol thread, but if monsieur ambassadeur is so pissed off with boris johnson, why not stay in post a couple more weeks and make johnson sack him?

― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 11 July 2019 3:17 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

By going now, with a friendly foreign secretary and PM he can make sure of his full pension and whatever gongs are coming his way. Wait till DePfeffel gets in and who the hell knows, he probably gets delivered trussed up to the rose garden.

By going this way he’s probably ensured that Teresa ennobled him on the way put the door.

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

acosta is the only latino on the trump cabinet, right?

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

To me he looks like a balding Ted Cruz.

i guess that's what happens when you have to tweet but you're not allowed to say anything that resembles what actually happened

I have no spine and I must tweet.

lol

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

To me he looks like a balding Ted Cruz.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019

my loudmouth newly #woke lib friend at Starbucks shared his truest remark in three years' acquaintance: "He looks like Kuato from Total Recall.

this photo with his daughters has become a (shining) meme

gah!

That's "Simpsons when it was good" made flesh.

strong candidate for SANTORUM.JPG

Acosta wife & daughters (and Pence) appear to be escapees from Wisconsin Death Trip.

Needs more cuttyhorse

everyone in that photo has keebler ears

everyone in that photo is struggling to repress a soul-shredding scream

Needs more cuttyhorse

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed),

Needs more Cutty Sark.

lmao that every Republican alive has to pretend this man's brain hasn't rotted through his skull

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019

what the

just fucking exp*re already

Once I realized that he's been referring to the kind of stable genius that solves simple math problems by stamping its hoof, I had to admit that the description was apropos.

that kind of genius lives in one, for sure

worth posting all of that

A big subject today at the White House Social Media Summit will be the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies. We will not let them get away with it much longer. The Fake News Media will also be there, but for a limited period..

....The Fake News is not as important, or as powerful, as Social Media. They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady. When I ultimately leave office in six......

....years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding), they will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public. That’s why they will all be Endorsing me at some point, one way or the other. Could you imagine having Sleepy Joe Biden, or @AlfredENeuman99,..

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

@AlfredENeuman99 has 760 followers. here is his twitter bio:

Retired teacher and soccer coach. Season ticket holder of the Chicago Cubs. Luther College, Northern Illinois U, UMiami. Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Chelsea.

he lives in Florida

So he famously went down an escalator in 2016 too?

pardon me for saying so but the fact that the President of the United States has a tendency to tag random people on Twitter is hilarious to me

'the person who was to become your future First Lady' is a very normal-brain thing to post, good work mr presidetn

no he announced his candidacy the same month he won the election. that's how it happened. xpost

That’s almost as incoherent as the message my mom just sent me about the article I wrote about St. Louis Park.

Fucksake, make it make sense....

wow that's inspiring

xp

Coward

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452579-paul-ryan-says-he-saw-retirement-as-an-escape-hatch-from-trump-book

i can't believe he has enough brain cells to breathe. honestly.

On one occasion, Alberta reports Trump finally gave in to signing a 2018 spending bill that didn't include border wall funding only after Ryan agreed to give him time to build suspense on Twitter.

lol

tfw when you lack the moral courage to stand up to a brain-damaged septuagenarian in order to enact your plan to crush the poor

one great thing about this social media summit is that the people who weren't invited are throwing tantrums about it

this includes ben garrison, who was DISINVITED after one of his old cartoons was held up as anti-semitic. he has already promised/threatened to draw about it

like they're all such fucking babies and it becomes more apparent every day

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/white-house-social-media-bias-talks-1576717

The invited guests include far-right activist Ali Alexander, who infamously claimed last month that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who has Indian and Jamaican heritage, is "not an American Black" in a tweet shared by Donald Trump Jr., as well as YourVoice America host Bill Mitchell, who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory alleging that Trump is waging a secret war against pedophiles and "deep state" saboteurs. Another expected attendee is James O'Keefe, whose undercover sting outfit Project Veritas has released what critics say are selectively edited videos depicting organizations ranging from Google to Planned Parenthood as biased and corrupt.

Pro-Trump political cartoonist Ben Garrison was also among those slated to attend, but the White House rescinded his invitation, POLITICO Playbook reported Wednesday, amid complaints that his work has promoted anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish financiers controlling world events.

only the best people

these guys are slipping off the planet, just want them to stop grabbing everyone's ankles on the way out

wait how does this work @AlfredENeuman99

'Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Chelsea'

'orioles, red sox, yankees'

I am reading the Alfred E. Neuman tag as the manner that was Tr*mp's way of calling another candidate a nickname, probably Buttigieg?

yes. Keeping his finger on the pulse, our fearless leader has mocked one of his many opponents with an accusation of youth and inability to be taken seriously by linking to the wrong twitter handle in a reference to a 66 year old satirical publication that ceased publication this month.

the pulse of the kidney, natch

James O'fucking Keefe is still getting invited to things? I guess if you bring down ACORN you get a lifetime pass to republican events

an inspired act of god should happen here

I think this any time there's a super-high concentration of undiluted irredeemability under one roof (i.e. increasingly frequently).

Pelosi said she’ll ask faith-based/evangelical groups to appeal to president to stop ICE raids. “They put him in office.”

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 11, 2019

she is beyond worthless

christ on a cracker, literally

sorry, speaking of those massive raids that are going to ruin the lives of thousands of families tomorrow (COOL COUNTRY WE LIVE IN!)

these are the same raids that democrats asked to be postponed so that they could give $5 billion to DHS with the intention of using the money to improve the wretched conditions in our detention camps for refugees (COOL COUNTRY WE LIVE IN!), right?

Pelosi should put up a comment box with a bunch of blank cards and a pencil on a string outside the WH fence. There's no way that Trump could withstand the fury of all those hastily-scrawled complaints.

Pelosi said she’ll ask faith-based/evangelical groups to appeal to president to stop ICE raids. “They put him in office.”

by the way, if you confront evangelicals with this, what they say is "i just want people to follow the law"

look i think she has to operate on the assumption that these people will do the right thing if she appeals passively to a go-between voting bloc that has always completely sided with the opposition.

Morals are very important to Evangelical Christians so I think we should just trust that they'll make the most morally-defensible decision in any given situation. I'm sure if we point out that Donald Trump behaves in an immoral fashion they'll realize that giving him their support was a mistake.

(takes medication to relieve post-lobotomy headache)

had to triple check that this person wasn’t just doing a bit pic.twitter.com/wtlM9hGGWW

— unlicensed professional (@KrangTNelson) July 11, 2019

Nancy hasn't been disrespected this much since she first arrived on Ellis Island.

There was also that time her daughters ordered a pizza wth penne on it and Nancy was all "That is not a pizza!!!"

i would slur her with an italian slur but i forgot what they all even are and i can't find my slur dictionary

I presume anti-Italian prejudice (certainly a real thing midcentury) hadn't vanished by Pelosi's youth -- in the late '30s there was a major magazine profile (LIfe?) of Joe DiMaggio that literally complimented "He doesn't reek of garlic" -- but one of these things is not like the other.

1939 https://books.google.com/books?id=qEkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=joe%20dimaggio%20life%20magazine%201939&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q=garlic&f=false

Thanks! A little amazed my memory was that accurate.

the Alfred E. Neuman thing was a dig at Buttigieg I think.

holy hell I just realized that "one-thousand twenty-fourth" is why Trump wrote "1000/24th"

I still don’t get that. I assumed he was trying to refer to Warren’s DNA test but doesn’t know how fractions work?

either that or he thinks she's 4167% Native, maybe why he calls her "Pocahontas"??

you could be 110% right on that, it's tough to tell with this guy

Let's keep divining the poop he's smeared all over the walls, I'm sure the secret meaning will reveal itself in time.

trump's cultural references are slightly fresher than john sterling's, but a lot less coherent

it is high . . . it is far . . . it is caught fake news

1/1024 = 1/(2^10), which I guess in allele division means ten generations ago or so.

Per CNN, Trump expected to back away from census citizenship question, direct Commerce to seek data through other sources: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/trump-census-executive-action/index.html

what would have prevented everyone from just fucking lying on the census? is it a 'under pentalty of perjury' sort of thing?

also re: italians as POC: my wife has a friend who is just a few years older than us (in her 50's) and she acts all the time ike this is still a thing. She's from NY.

the point is that many people would, rather than lie, be intimidated out of filling out the census at all.

update: rip the university of alaska. the legislature needed 45 votes to override the governor's budget veto; the vote was 37-1 to do so with 22 republicans absent

With 22 lawmakers absent, a joint session of the Alaska Legislature in Juneau fails to override Gov. Dunleavy's budget vetoes https://t.co/HyJHEb3lMR pic.twitter.com/IDrIhetfwD

— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) July 10, 2019

i mean at least have the fucking guts to show up and vote to gut your state's education system

guts for the moment of gutting in short supply

guts for the gutting
dirty little secret
reason for the gathering
consequence

Have tons of family who have gone to/taught at UAF in particular. My cousin is likely completely screwed. And of course the native kids in the villages, and children of immigrants, and working-class hunters/fishers who want to go to college without leaving the state will end up getting a pathetic education as the remaining professors make their escape plans.

really excited about nullification coming back in a big way in the 21st century

holy hell I just realized that "one-thousand twenty-fourth" is why Trump wrote "1000/24th"

― frogbs

I still don’t get that. I assumed he was trying to refer to Warren’s DNA test but doesn’t know how fractions work?

― Karl Malone

to correct the fraction

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1/1024th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019

still left this part up though

They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady.

something very Wiseauian about that prose

so this uh """"social media summit"""" seems like a good use of White House resources

Trump says his social media following used to just go up, but now it's like "up, down, up, down," and even when it goes up, "it goes very slowly," and "sometimes it comes down substantially," and he doesn't know what's going on.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 11, 2019

Trump: "There's no doubt in my mind that I should have millions and millions - I have millions of people, so many people I wouldn't believe it, but I know that we've been blocked, People come up to me and they say, 'Sir, I can't get you. I can't follow you.'"

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 11, 2019

actually I totally buy that Trump's fans can't figure out how to follow him

maybe he's misunderstanding what people mean when they say "i can't follow you"

hahahaha

so reports are he's going to back off on the citizenship in census but send out some other questionnaire. Why would they think anyone would fill that out rather than just throw it away? who the fuck is going to fill out a form that implicates themselves? what kind of dumb world is this?

lol back down bitch

Barr is such a boot licking chump I hate the sound of his voice

@realDonaldTrump: I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity....


uh oh he's gonna lose the crypto vote

A grad student out of my department was en route to Fairbanks with her family to start a tenure track job at UAF last week; not sure if it’s even worth unpacking at this point for what is probably now a one year gig.

"Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity" yeah duh dude that's half the fucking point. Thanks for joining the 21st century Granddad

To be fair, at least half his base balances their checkbook by hand

They could use a quick little summary of cryotocurrency

xps i wonder if they write the contracts for those things so that they're actually enforceable/you can sue them for breaking - usually the non-tenure-track ones are so unfavorable to the faculty party that the university can basically drop its end at will

They could use a quick little summary of cryotocurrency

Walt Disney doesn't get a vote

Literally the only vocal trump voter I know is also a crypto person. Looking forward to hearing his reaction

you won't believe it but Trump tweeted negative stuff about Paul Ryan! Called him a failure.

trump otm

Acosta gone, in the least surprising resignation ever. Now he should be disbarred, and possibly also charged with criminal conduct.

Good riddance. https://t.co/vjTQCQsDzV

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) July 12, 2019

lolol

As soon as MSNBC ran a clip yesterday of "Judge" Andrew Napolitano on FOX announcing that Acosta would be gone by Friday I knew his days were numbered.

Trump on Acosta: "He's a tremendous talent. He's a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

very normal brain

"He's done a fantastic job. He's a friend of everybody in the administration," Trump began their appearance. He said Acosta "did a fantastic job yesterday" in the press conference, which happened two days ago.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

Trump fired him because he wasn't being conservative i.e. mean enough as labor secretary.

"Why haven't you deported labor yet?"

the normalist

Trump says getting citizenship information through government data will be "actually more accurate than a Census." Asked if he backed down, he said not only did he not back down, "I backed UP."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

he backed that azz up

Asked if his time in office was anything more than a series of major fuck-ups, President Trump retorted that 'it's been a series of minor fuck-DOWNS,' followed by staring into the middle distance and muttering in a barely-audible tone, 'I'm a big boy, a big boy'

“So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad, to me that’s very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech.”

Maggie Haberman makes me want to scream so much

Trump, who used to use a specific phrase with aides to describe Epstein’s island, says this to reporters this AM, via @anniekarni: “His Island, whatever this island was, wherever it is, I was never there. Find out the people that went to the island.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 12, 2019

Apparently its "Pedo Island" but for some reason she has to use code.

the NYT: always discreet except when ginning up wars

Acosta becomes the 13th Cabinet member to depart the Trump administration. By this time in the Obama admin, none had left. In the George W. Bush admin at this point, one had departed. pic.twitter.com/Uzi5uXeG5q

— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) July 12, 2019

And there's a 14th coming soon - apparently Trump wants to push Dan Coats out.

Thread: @ManhattanDA @CyVance Jr. is the Forrest Gump/Roy Cohn/Tom Hagen/Don Jr of the Trump era:
1. Protected Ivanka & Don Jr
2. Protected Harvey Weinstein
3. *Protected Jeffrey Epstein.*
4. But overzealously prosecutes poor/ mass incarcerates.
5. And is botching Manafort case https://t.co/8ttCw2pq3i

— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) July 9, 2019

can't read his name without picturing powers boothe's character in deadwood.

at least that bizarro stunt produced some high-quality Vic

Mr. Trump took to the podium today to NOT complain about losing followers on social media.

If you like my videos and want to support what I do, check out my Patreon: https://t.co/sQPiRk8jyD pic.twitter.com/OTpAMJDv4i

— Pastor Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) July 12, 2019

Yes, but only those most deserving. pic.twitter.com/l3kI5Gjx8F

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 12, 2019

glad that jesus and/or socialism is saving alex in nyc

so in this analogy Jesus is Socialism and heroin is heroin?

millions now living free will never die hard

There’s not enough arms in that picture. Why is that guy injecting Jesus with heroin?

Because it’s part of God’s plan, duh

Jesus is accepting onto himself the burden of that poor man's sins. It's just part of the confused mixture of symbolism and literalism that suffuses fundamentalist theology.

VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.) pic.twitter.com/tHFZYxJF7C

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 12, 2019

the picture with pence and those cages is some odious shit

really

I'm sure that deeply held Christianity will kick in any day now.

can't wait for marco's next scripture tweet

Tracy Nuetzi, a white Trump voter in Florida, got caught up by ICE and was mislabeled an immigrant. She spent nearly a year trying to prove she was a US citizen and says no one should be treated like she was. But she plans to vote for Trump again in 2020. https://t.co/bZ1hJnib6p

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 12, 2019

Tracy, we have a Darwin Award with your name pre-engraved, whenever you're ready to, y'know, do whatever final thing it is that you'll inevitably do.

a credit to citizenship

She spent nearly a year trying to prove she was a US citizen

Sure, she tried to prove it, but I have my lingering doubts and I feel like until she's succeeded in proving it past all doubts and to everyone's complete satisfaction, she should not be allowed to vote, because we all know how much fraudulent voting is being done by non-citizens these days and its ruining our precious democracy. I want witnesses, affidavits, a loyalty oath, a birth certificate examined by a panel of forensic experts, an honorable discharge from the armed forces, and proof she has never accepted a penny in food stamps under any of her aliases.

you know things are way fucked up when aimless gets sarcastic

I think it was Grayson Allen pushed me over the edge.

understandable

who is badass on a friday night two weeks later? the house democrats, that's who

Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?

Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.

She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.

Keep👏🏾Her👏🏾Name👏🏾Out👏🏾Of👏🏾Your👏🏾Mouth. pic.twitter.com/k4sV5hsbQl

— House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) July 13, 2019

jesus

good day to celebrate the death of this shit

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/09/obit-rep-william-dannemeyer-a-face-of-orange-county-conservatism-in-the-age-of-reagan/

His widow Lorraine Day is all over the documentary Ward 5B.

Pence comes through

CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 13, 2019

iirc when someone says “my captors are treating me well” you’re not supposed to take that at face value

I feel like Pence doing the “who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes” bit deserves a little more attention than AOC/Pelosi bullshit but oh well.

Also a dude got shot and killed after throwing IEDs at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma this morning.

This one has me gobsmacked. pic.twitter.com/lMRm1nt1xc

— Sassy Jax 🍑 ⚦♊︎ (@Rafaeslomejor) July 13, 2019

Pence has put on a little weight in the intervening 75 years, but not bad, considering

iirc when someone says “my captors are treating me well” you’re not supposed to take that at face value

iirc when a captor says “someone says my captors are treating me well” you’re not supposed to take that at face value


especially when every other reporter says “they said their captors are treating them inhumanely”

I read that several times and I wonder if one or more of your 'captors' was intended as 'captives'?

no, I don’t think so

uh, OK

I’m with Aimless on this one, maybe try again

nest some more quotes around the “my captors” bit though

so then, your intention was to convey:

when a captor (Pence) says, "someone (a captive) says, 'my captors (Border Patrol) are treating me well.'", you’re not supposed to take that at face value.

?

yep!

I was on a bus and missed adding the single quote

(then on another bus and just paying attention to each captor when reading it back after your explicable confusion)

at any rate, there’s a place prepared in hell for hypocrites, and if there’s any justice everyone involved will be tarred and feathered for starters before they get there

”So interesting to see ​’​Progressive​’​ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly​ ​and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run​,”

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how​ it is done​,” he continued. “​These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!​”

Racists president is racist

good morning!

Racists president is racist

― (•̪●) (carne asada),

Rapist president diverts attention to preferred grounds

Child's Garden of Trump "R" entry would include: raucous, racist, rabid, rash, regressive, revolting, ridiculous, regrettable, rapacious, rapist, ruthless, recidivist, radical, rank, risible, rancorous, rude, rancorous, repressive, ruinous, repellant, remorseless, ranting, repulsive

This is raucous, racist, rabid, rash, regressive, revolting, ridiculous, regrettable, rapacious, rapist, ruthless, recidivist, radical, rank, risible, rancorous, rude, rancorous, repressive, ruinous, repellant, remorseless, ranting, repulsive even by his standards.

repetitive but right

rancorous, rude, rancorous

And rampant. And repugnant.

Racists president is racist

You missed the apostrophe, like so:

Racists' president is racist

There's a subreddit called 'Ask Trump Supporters' where you can interact with some of America's finest. Someone asked 'In a recent tweet, Trump said that progressive congresswomen should go back to the corrupt countries they came from and fix them before trying to reform our government. Do you agree?' Here's a selection of replies:

Do you really take that statement literally? Or do you understand the context and point being made.

[q]What do you think about the tweets?

Love it.

Is this appropriate behavior from the President?

Completely fine by me. Someone needs to put these people in their place.

Is it a racist remark?

To you progressives and liberals? Probably. Do I care? Not one bit.[/q]