US Politics November 2017

Honestly no idea if I'd prefer May to @ back or not.

If he literally spat in her face she'd stand their with her weird frozen grin thank him for it. The good news is he's managed to make this the leading story in the British media for the second day in a row and re-started the debate on cancelling a state visit by a US President for, as far as I know, the first time ever.

I feel bad for the random @theresamay with six followers who's probably getting a fuckload of abusive shit right now, although I guess she has done for a while. I feel worse for wishing he'd accidentally tweeted at the porn star instead.

The weakest PM that Britain has known in decades is not going to get in a fight with President no matter how much shit he throws at her. But it's a good reminder that she can expect absolutely fuck all from the US and that everyone in her party should stop maintaining the fantasy that we will.

Given one of their own MPs was literally murdered in the street by a Britain First supporter there's no way that even the most craven Opposition MP could fail to oppose his visit, right?

But it's a good reminder that she can expect absolutely fuck all from the US and that everyone in her party should stop maintaining the fantasy that we will.

You'd think we'd have got the message about that in the UK by now after the entire history of relations between the two countries.

The grander the state visit the better. Roll out the golden carriages. Remind the country how absolutely craven we are and that we have, against the odds, managed to find a way to make ourselves even weaker wrt the US than we have been since WWII.

Sajid Javid and Nadhim Zahwahi, both active members of a government that is, in some respects, even more racist can gtfo with their Strongly Worded Condemnations tbh.

Nazi sympathizer profiled by the New York Times says he lost his job and — soon — his home https://t.co/Jf9pmrFqWR

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 30, 2017

Good morning!

you have 10 and a half hours to come up with a new title!

i guess 15 and a half if we're going with EST

US Politics December 2017

https://www.vox.com/2017/11/30/16517022/impeachment-donald-trump

May’s gotta tell Trump to fuck off in this situation. The only move.

has Ezra spoken up about the #VoxUnion yet

good mourning!

I, for one, think this thread has benefited from the absence of Trump.

it's cute when people like Klein ponder how they can fix the US constitution when the reality is more akin it being Not Even Wrong.

May’s gotta tell Trump to fuck off in this situation. The only move.

you have 10 and a half hours to come up with a new title!

Amerikansk Politik Desember 2017 (ToTusindogSytten)

There are some decent candidates in here:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/11/29/open-thread-how-bad-is-trumps-brain/

I nominate “a handful of conspiracy theories that have no grounding in fact: US Politics, December 2017”

I don't really get why anyone pays attention to Trump's tweets tbh, he's just trolling the opposition/riling up his fanbase. outside of the legal ramifications (which are all, generally speaking bad for him) seems like the wiser course of action is to ignore them.

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If anyone on here approvingly posted any content from a far-right org I reckon they'd be rightly banned.

I suppose the reason twitter won't ban is because of this dumb 'ignore' type stuff.

can't stifle freedom of the press, Twitter is a website of record

A record of our hell.

imagine a world where people had to host and publicize their own hateful propaganda

US politics december 2017: when they go low, we go home

Tillerson getting the shove; Mike Pompeo to become the new Tillerson; Tom Cotton to be the new Pompeo

Mr. Tillerson’s departure has been widely anticipated for months, but associates have said he was intent on finishing out the year to retain whatever dignity he could. Even so, an end-of-year exit would make his time in office the shortest of any secretary of state whose tenure was not ended by a change in presidents in nearly 120 years.

what in the hell

it's like the same six people are gonna end up running ten departments each

efficiency!

Mr. Tillerson’s departure has been widely anticipated for months, but associates have said he was intent on finishing out the year to retain whatever dignity he could.

Cotton in charge of the CIA, just fantastic. Well, at least he can write full sentences. There’s that.

i loved the 'your favorite president (me)' from a couple days ago

Cotton will now have the resume of the hero of a shitty action book series

i notice trump has moved On from random Capitalisation to UPPERCASE YELLING over the last DAY OR SO

only a matter of time before he transcends language altogether and just tweets links to isis execution footage with angry face emojis

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/515/215/2a9.png

I’m surprised he hasn’t started forwarding racist email chains to the entire country yet. I guess there’s always 2018

Maybe he'll shift to Facebook and post anti-Hillary/Obama image macros complete with minions. Then he'll go to Walmart and hold up lines at the register because he's trying to coerce the cashier into agreeing with him about the invasion of sharia law.

“US Politics, December 2017: I guess there’s always 2018”

otm

sheesh can't even make jokes about the French Revolution anymore

"Let them eat steak (well done and with ketchup)!"

Josh, sorry but that's been said about every shutdown threat so far, and no one has yet given even the tiniest of fucks. People keep driving on interstates and flying on airplanes and getting SS checks. Food keeps getting inspected. The Army doesn't take a break.

No one notices the absence of the huge number of important-but-nonessential things done by the CDC or EPA or Fish & Wildlife or NLRB or GSA or whatever. It would take a long time to feel those hurts, and anyway the point of having most of those functions is not averting immediate catastrophe, but building a more just and safe and civil society bit by bit, on a time scale of decades rather than days.

I got a parking ticket in DC during a government shutdown. A handful of people will find they can't follow through on a planned visit to a national park. So they'll either go later or go somewhere else instead. Big deal; in any case the number of people so affected could be counted on the fingers of one severely maimed hand.

I suppose the reason twitter won't ban is because of this dumb 'ignore' type stuff.

Twitter won't ban him (as they should - he's violated their terms of service many times over by now) because he makes them money.

I would think this is blatantly obvious - what better brand awareness promoter could you have than the president

it's the same reason they won't crackdown on propaganda bots, cause if they start removing bots, their active user count will drop by millions

exactly

This just pooped up on my Facebook feed (I was going to fix that typo, but nah) from a friend of a friend. I'll just leave it here for posterity:

IM SEEING POSTS WHERE SOME ARE PUTTING TRUMP DOWN, FOR THINGS HE DOES , BUT THEY NEVER NAME WHAT HE DOES EXCEPT MAYBE HIS TWEETING, HOW IS THAT HURTING THIS COUNTRY ? AND MOST ARE SO IGNORANT THEY DONT REALIZE THEY ARE BEING PLAYED BY THE POLITICIANS, SANCTUARY CITIES AND OPEN BORDERS ARE WHAT KEEPS ALL THESE DEMOCRAT MAYORS AND GOVERNORS IN POWER , THEY VOTE DEMOCRAT, THESE DEMOCRATS ARE A DIFFERENT BREED, THEY ARE NOT THE DEMOCRATS OF A FEW DECADES AGO, THEY HAVE MORPHED INTO A BUNCH OF RADICAL THUGS, WITH ONE GOAL, TO OVER THROW TRUMP AND TURN AMERICA INTO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY .

It’s a fair cop.

otm

I’m down with that goal but it sounds like two goals actually

you know what, forget it. maybe both sides are bad. the DNC sure wasn't as fair to their independent as the RNC / kremlin was to theirs. and now the democrats are obstructing mr. trump, who may not be the best speaker in the world, fine, at least he's no soviet, i mean, socialist. burp

McCain is in, the tax bill is a sure thing now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP5EshPXUAAkLqz.jpg:large

depressing