US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots

i'm impressed by Omarosa's desperate attempt to spin herself as an advance scout for the resistance now.

"is it a requirement that every female who works in this white house has to dump a metric kilo of eyeshadow on every morning?" she is gearing up for her job at FOXy News

great line of derision everyone, I see great things coming

you're right simon it's a bad road and i shouldn't have gone down it. i guess i'm remembering trump specifically ordering sanders to heap on the eye makeup - but yeah, wtf do i care

Wearing a metric kilo of eyeshadow is a choice and totally worthy of derision in a WH run by a beauty pageant huckster

Fire and Fury heavily implies that Trump demands his female staffers look a certain way.

still i think simon is correct

Rush Lumbago was goin' nuts over Susan Rice today, I tuned out after 3 minutes

he's still alive?

100% reporting: Democrats have picked-up Florida's #HD72 district!

And by a comfortable margin of 7% (about 3,000 votes). That's a net swing of 12% toward Democrats compared to the 2016 presidential results.

— Taniel (@Taniel) February 14, 2018

in NYT related news, this has turned out to be one of the great Twitter flashback self-owns

Today I realized I'd probably make a lot more money being a racist for @nytimes.

— These are Quinn's sexy Spock eyebrows (@quinnnorton) September 19, 2014

(She hangs out w/ Nazis and has just been hired by the Gray Lady in a senior editorial role)

Yikes

Journo. Ideologically impure. I write on security, privacy, human condition. EU-American. Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/quinnnorton FYI, I can't spell.

Jesus christ.

Well done there.

New York Times statement on Quinn Norton’s use of offensive slurs in old tweets pic.twitter.com/KEaHo5wvns

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) February 14, 2018

She hangs out w/ Nazis

This is not a good take. This is the other kind of take.

xpost Wasn't there a special election in a Minnesota Trump county that just went Dem?

aaron swartz's girlfriend hangs out with nazis? I'd like to see the receipts on that tbf

NYT has done it again pic.twitter.com/iIDqu5oanP

— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) February 13, 2018

I guess "hung out with nazis as recently as four years ago" would be more accurate

anyway I assume this is what the NYT were referring to re: slurs

Hhhmm hard to imagine a context in which all these gay slur tweets are fine and good but maybe I'm missing something pic.twitter.com/3h61HcPnnB

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) February 13, 2018

xpost maybe she did it to get intel.

funny!

i suspect she will be unhired soon

Yes.

This would rule. Imagine the nyt fridges reaction for one

You know who would be a genuinely provocative, dynamic and lively columnist in a way that is very different from the extremely predictable quote-unquote "provocative" people op-ed pages tend to go for? @pareene.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 14, 2018

xps well well. phew.

yessss

I would like that very much.

Would love to see this in the times for example http://thecuck.gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-my-future-daughter-1785229631

If he were black and gay, yes.

I'd rather this: https://www.wired.com/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/

Smooth

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/963601375501410304

anybody want to link to something that shows why ANYONE would hire this quinn norton person? i don't wanna google her.

Just google her. All the fucked up shit is on Twitter, that’s why I didn’t have a clue about it

sounds like they didn't hire her

xpost Wasn't there a special election in a Minnesota Trump county that just went Dem?

no, there were two, the D went D and the R went R

if anyone wants to poll this bullshit, i'd vote

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4377226/An-American-Budget-Fiscal-Year-2019.pdf

SNAP loses $17 billion
The Post Office loses $4 billion
Low-income energy assistance is eliminated
Foreign aid is cut $5 billion
PBS funding is eliminated
Ditto for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities
HUD loses $9 billion, including a $4 billion cut in rental assistance

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/trump-budget-proposal-is-a-cry-from-the-conservative-id/

the bright side:

not only is the white house's plan dead on arrival, but all of those things can be used in democratic campaigns this fall. a vote for a democrat is a vote against those things.

this is a pretty standard gop presidential budget, no?

They haven't quite had the guts to propose extinction or extinction-level funding like this. (xp - Karl otm)

All haXor people should probably be considered suspect until proven otherwise at this point.

i have heard from a reliable source that she way overstated the nature of her relationship w/swartz at the time of his death

hope the times cans bari next

any reflected glory from association with swartz has to be weighed against friendships with weev and other nazis too

Bari was reallll quiet yesterday.

House investigating WH handling of Porter

You forgot the scare quotes.

"WH"

Good lord:

nvestigators determined Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and airfare for his wife during a European trip last summer that ultimately cost taxpayers more than $122,000, according to a VA inspector general report released Wednesday.

His chief of staff, Viveca Wright Simpson, made false representations to a VA ethics lawyer and altered an official email to secure approval for taxpayer funding of Shulkin’s wife’s flights, which cost more than $4,000, the VA inspector general found.

Disgraceful. How are other government officials expected to enjoy their taxpayer-funded vacations when one guy hogs the coffer like that? Sounds like it might be time to tax those shiftless poor people again.

and he's one of the Obama holdovers

seems like this is going well

@freedomcaucus Chair @RepMarkMeadows just called for “new leadership” in the House Republican Conference, accusing @SpeakerRyan's team of slacking on putting forth a GOP immigration vote

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) February 14, 2018