US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

so basically this has next to no chance of becoming law, but it is notable because it *does* have the chance to expose deep divisions in the GOP caucus ahead of the elections and make various members' more vulnerable

absurd bill, stop attaching your fucking border wall to everything dumbasses.

oh duh sorry for House/Senate confusion, thanks outic

maybe no one born before 1955 should be allowed to hold office or vote or tweet

there goes social security

Jesus Christ, no more mentions of the bible or religion in any kind of government space. That's beyond absurd.

stop attaching your fucking border wall to everything dumbasses.

this is their only legislative strategy - they keep thinking if they attach it to something a) the president will sign it and b) Democrats will be tricked (or coerced) into voting for it

tbf the Bible totally endorses indentured servitude for children, worked out great for Joseph iirc

there goes social security

i would've have agreed in the past but it's becoming increasingly clear that the olds are going to happily hoover it up for themselves but are actively destroying it and Medicare for their kids and grandkids

boomers, the shittiest generation

BREAKING: Republicans are floating a draft bill that would end family separations as the U.S. plans to reopen a tent shelter to house migrant children.

A draft text of the Republicans’ bill also calls for visas for young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” as well as billions in funding for President Trump’s border wall. Conservatives and moderates are reserving judgment on the legislation ahead of expected votes next week.

The compromise bill would end the practice of dividing immigrant children from their parents at the border, a policy criticized earlier Thursday by Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). The U.S. will soon begin housing migrant children at a shelter site near El Paso that was last used in 2016 to house migrant children and families in large canvas tents. The site will have recreation areas and educational programming, and the tents are air-conditioned, officials said.

also adds 25 billion for the fuckin wall

Dems wanted to trade DACA reinstatement for funding the wall. R's wanted to tack on a lot more immigration crap beyond funding the wall in exchange for reinstating DACA. No deal. Now the R's think stopping treating foreign-born children like pieces of shit is a good exchange for the Dems funding the wall. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the art of the deal.

exactly

https://www.politicalorphans.com/preparing-for-political-violence/

otm:

When white people carry guns in a standoff with authorities it raises the cost of confrontation, making them hesitant and reticent. When non-whites carry guns while challenging authorities, it justifies any degree of violence the authorities choose to deploy.
Complain it about later. Understand it and use it now...

...If you are a white, materially successful, law-abiding citizen with a sterling credit rating, you are America’s little precious. When something happens to you, the country reels. You are also entirely unaccustomed to any form of conflict with government authorities. Your disobedience is worth several hundred bombs

― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will)

so i had to look chris ladd up because i had to know how he knew so exactly well what sen. merkley _should_ have done, because god knows every member of congress wants to be the next leo ryan. rationalwiki has a page on him!

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chris_Ladd

"If you want to read more reasonable moderate (compared to the GOP at least) conservative opinions he's probably one of your better choices."

this guy is a "moderate conservative"? either rationalwiki's entry is out of date or we're all fucked. possibly both.

also popcorn sales are up xp

― (•̪●) (carne asada)

and alcohol sales. and the suicide rate.

Any inept email usage from anyone over 45 years old is a super "no shit?" moment.

― Yerac

i'm def looking forward to being totally inept at email in three years

details from the IG report about the Lynch/B. Clinton meeting. wow, sounds like a great time was had

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/clinton-lynch-doj-ig-tarmac-meeting

The conversation lasted 20 minutes, Lynch recalled, before one of her staffers boarded the plane to intervene.

Meanwhile, among Lynch’s staff waiting on the tarmac in her motorcade, a panic was beginning to swell, according to the report:

The Deputy Chief of Staff said that they quickly realized that the meeting was problematic, because Clinton was not just the former President but was also the husband of someone who was under investigation. The Deputy Chief of Staff said that she felt “shocked,” and that they all “just felt completely…blindsided.” The Senior Counselor said that they immediately were aware that the meeting was ill-advised and that the “optics were not great.”

They called DOJ’s Public Affairs Director Melanie Newman and “sounded the alarm.”

Yet one more example of Clinton's much overrated political skills abandoning him.

even now, he doesn't seem to understand the problem.

Clinton, in his interview with the inspector general investigators, said he was surprised by the scrutiny the meeting attracted.

“The mainstream media wasn’t as bad on that as they were on a lot of things, I thought, I think the ones that were criticizing me, I thought you know, I don’t know whether I’m more offended that they think I’m crooked or that they think I’m stupid,” he said, according to the report.

Sorry, Bill, but if you think the appearance of impropriety, without the disinfectant of transparency, can be dismissed just by taking offense, then fella, you are stupid. In fact one the greatest stupidities of very smart people is thinking that smart is something you just are, rather than a trait that only appears your actions.

so i had to look chris ladd up because i had to know how he knew so exactly well what sen. merkley _should_ have done, because god knows every member of congress wants to be the next leo ryan. rationalwiki has a page on him!

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chris_Ladd

"If you want to read more reasonable moderate (compared to the GOP at least) conservative opinions he's probably one of your better choices."

this guy is a "moderate conservative"? either rational wiki's entry is out of date or we're all fucked. possibly both.

i follow him some on social media and i may be wrong but i get the impression that Ladd was a "moderate" Republican who's gone pretty far left (relatively) as the GOP has heartily embraced the ugliest elements of Trumpism

i'm def looking forward to being totally inept at email in three years

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy)

This is on a non-rolling basis. I don't know how many high paid, elite douches (to include relatives of past presidents) I have had to explain the difference between single clicking and double clicking to or not to "reply all".

50 Billion in tarriffs on Chinese goods

Isn't this how the Phantom Menace started?

From Mate's piece:

"But lying to reporters is not an indictable offense, and neither is showing a willingness to obtain foreign dirt."

I thought the latter was an indictable offense?

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/10/15950590/donald-trump-jr-new-york-times-illegal

political orphan on Ladd and its founding: "One party has embraced white nationalism while the other struggles to sustain an unsteady coalition of ‘everyone else.’"

i'm not judging Ladd's moderation, but this observation if it reflects Ladd's own opinion, is about right.

it's been interesting watching Ladd and especially Bruce Bartlett lurch further left than your average Sensible Centrist Democrat

Xxxxxpost
That political violence article drastically understates the cops' willingness to bash & kill white liberals

Yeah, I was gonna say... The Bundys are a special case, not the norm.

honestly mostly i wanted to find out if chris ladd was white

if he's not that piece is defensible

if he is then modeling how white men should behave is somewhat more useful than lecturing other white men about how they're doing it wrong

It's not really either/or

feel like it's gonna be a very Trumpy day today

well, good mourning!

it's been interesting watching Ladd and especially Bruce Bartlett lurch further left than your average Sensible Centrist Democrat

― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will)

today i learned that advocating borrowing from the cliven bundy playbook makes one more "left" than Sensible Centrist Democrats who quail at instigating armed conflict

Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018

Ladd is white. and i'm not (nor do i think he is) suggesting the Left needs to strap up and take a nature preserve.

but i *do* think this is worthy of consideration.

Recognize your leverage... At this stage of the conflict, placing your white body in the way of an unjust authority is an act of war capable of achieving consequential victories. You will experience inconvenience. You might even be briefly detained. But you will bring down painful outcomes that will shift power inside those organizations. Force your enemy to pay a price for the ground they are trying to seize. You may discover that they were weaker than you thought.

"liberaltarian" Will Wilkinson (also v white):

If you're white, your duty is to run interference. Just a few seconds of being in the way--acting dumb, having an argument you lose, spilling a drink, locking a door and "losing" the key, etc.--can be the difference between liberty and captivity, can save a family from ruin.

Especially if you're an older authoritative looking management type, use your social capital. Harangue ICE or CBP agents about warrants, demand badge numbers, deny their authority to be there or do what they're doing. The point isn't to be right, the point is to stall.

"How do I know you're really the government?" Call the cops on them. Create administrative confusion. Make them physically move you. If getting arrested for interference keeps some kid's honest, hardworking dad out of an immigrant prison camp, and won't much harm you, cool.

what a pathetic tweet

Ladd is white. and i'm not (nor do i think he is)

Okay, this confused me a lot for a while.

he's the president of TV ratings

and he's cheesy af

president infomercial

why can i see his stupid smug grin through that tweet

Because his stupid smug grin will be burned onto the backs of our eyelids until the day when sweet merciful death finally takes us.

President Trump on everything but roller skates!

Trump on Kim Jong Un: “He speaks and his people sit up in attention. I want my people to do the same.”

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) June 15, 2018

in case it wasn't obvious that Trump's fawning admiration for KJU was anything but sheer jealousy

He's followed up with a press gaggle and claimed people didn't understand sarcasm.

he's kidding but he's not really kidding

man "understanding sarcasm" sure has gotten this admin out of some tight spots

Donald Trump, humor expert