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

surely there's a better way of conveying that ideology than "liberaltarian"

ugh i typed it out and it's like i can't get the word off my fingers

lol yeah it's bad

who seems much more at ease with dem socialist domestic policies

or at the very least comes across as so on twitter. i do think he's 'evolved' on a lot of this stuff since he was at Cato. (and fired from there during Obama's first term iirc )

I mean this is one of the rare cases where making himself the center of attention is valid as a deflection technique

yeah I don't know anything about this guy but the quotes here seem fine to me

Lindsey Graham live on @CNN: "If you don't like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, I don't give a shit" pic.twitter.com/iNnqiYjZpV

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) June 15, 2018

i was wondering why all the replies to that tweet were positive and then i read "white house correspondent for the daily calller"

listening to Huckleberry Butchmeup curse is like hearing Julie Andrews admit she loves cock.

except not cool

his about face was pretty abrupt and extreme. he's not even up for reelection until 2020 right?

If I understand Graham's phrasing correctly, he's telling us that he's dangerously constipated.

i'm going to be thinking about Julie Andrews talking about cock for the rest of the day

Manafort jailed

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-15/manafort-sent-to-jail-after-judge-cancels-house-arrest?__twitter_impression=true

xpost One might certainly assume that Team Trump must've stumbled upon some particularly juicy Lindsay Graham kompromat.

excellent

in other news, GOP "governing"!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-separations-cause-rift-between-gop-leaders-wh-042149469--politics.html

President Donald Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion Friday over Republican efforts to push immigration through the House next week, saying he won't sign a "moderate" package. A top House Republican said the chamber would not tackle the issue without Trump's backing.

The tumult erupted days before GOP leaders planned campaign-season votes on a pair of Republican bills: a hard-right proposal and a middle-ground plan negotiated by the party's conservative and moderate wings.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that Trump backs the compromise plan. GOP aides said Trump's remark caught party leaders off-guard, and White House officials did not immediately respond to requests to clarify the president's comment.

So basically the moderates missed their chance to file the discharge petition, and now they got screwed (again!) by GOP leadership. Who could have foreseen this.

I guess they could still try to file the discharge petition next month but who knows

Democrats are now urging moderate Republicans to vote against a procedural move next week to bring the conservative Goodlatte measure to the floor for a vote. Doing so would keep a discharge petition — brought forward by moderate Republicans to force a series of immigration votes — alive. That petition is just two signatures short of succeeding.

The moderate Republicans who prompted the immigration fight were scrambling Friday to determine if Trump really meant what he said during his “Fox and Friends” interview.

“I’m not sure that the president understood the question, so we’re checking to see if he did,” said Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), a moderate who participated in the talks. “I still have faith that when he sees the bill and has a chance to digest it, he’ll support it.”

Katko sounds like a real bright guy rmde

by "sees" he means "eats" and by "bill" he means "big bowl of chocolate ice cream"

this separating children from their mothers thing seems like a major PR disaster for the GOP, Dems are gonna push that shit hard in their election messaging, I would think. it's so fucking inhumane, instant outrage-inducing motivation

maybe the wrong thread, but does anyone know the best organizations to either donate to or work directly with to help people trying to cross the border?

otoh Bill Nelson doesn't even have a Spanish language web presence

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Bill Nelson doesn't even have a Spanish language web presence.

at this point my guess is the Senate comes out kind of a wash - maybe the GOP gains a couple seats. Dems win in AZ but lose in FL, Manchin and Tester probably hang on. who knows what happens in Missouri.

literally all paul manafort had to do to enjoy a quiet life of egregious crime was not win a presidential election

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 15, 2018

this separating children from their mothers thing seems like a major PR disaster for the GOP, Dems are gonna push that shit hard in their election messaging, I would think. it's so fucking inhumane, instant outrage-inducing motivation

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 15, 2018 5:35 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think this has legs

I’m stunned speechless. Daou is normally the lowest of hacks. pic.twitter.com/tKfHsMFGvZ

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 15, 2018

lmao @ the angry Clintonites in his mentions and the rose twitter folks defending him! wild

many xps to Karl - looks like that China Commerce Ministry quote is from this other article (which I posted on the US Economy Into The Shitbin thread)

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/14/news/economy/trump-china-tariffs/index.html

lot of interesting stuff in here, including actual pushback from conservatives/evangelicals on the separating families thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/06/15/daily-202-trump-is-losing-the-debate-over-splitting-up-immigrant-families/5b2305ab30fb046c468e6ee4/?utm_term=.bc604ac3a6da

It’s telling that Trump himself doesn’t take credit for the policy, his line is essentially to pretend “Democrats are making me do it”

Henwood and Daou

https://tenor.com/view/two-spiderman-pointing-meme-gif-11796793

It’s telling that Trump himself doesn’t take credit for the policy, his line is essentially to pretend “Democrats are making me do it”

yeah I'm not sure if anyone is buying this or how well it's playing - I would think his base of racist monsters would WANT him to take credit for it.

Sessions is the one playing 'bad cop' on the separation of families, not that it is much of a reach for him. He seems to want to jail everyone who's not a god-fearing white person or who can impersonate one.

"seems to"? no need to equivocate

maybe the wrong thread, but does anyone know the best organizations to either donate to or work directly with to help people trying to cross the border?

may not be as direct as you're looking for but National Immigration Law Center has a really good rep afaik

https://www.raicestexas.org/ ?

SCOOP: A fmr top CIA interrogator is training ICE's deportation agents in interrogation methods, documents show.

He was hired *3 days* after the Trump admin authorized its policy of separating undocumented families caught crossing the border.https://t.co/jyBzjhXbWX pic.twitter.com/pv3EQPclgy

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 15, 2018

can't even spell their fucking headers correctly

I just got this from Elizabeth Warren's office re: organizations to donate to to help families at the border: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ew-kidsattheborder?refcode=20180615em1-full

lot of interesting stuff in here, including actual pushback from conservatives/evangelicals on the separating families thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/06/15/daily-202-trump-is-losing-the-debate-over-splitting-up-immigrant-families/5b2305ab30fb046c468e6ee4/?utm_term=.bc604ac3a6da

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 15, 2018 12:10 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea between this and making buddies with KJU I do feel like we're seeing a bit more "man even I can't defend this anymore" this week

guessing having a campaign manager go to jail is pretty significant too. I mean my god, imagine the bloodlust if Clinton won and Robby Mook got locked up for life

I think the economic blowback from the trade war is going to be more detrimental than KJU photo op tbh

trade war blowback will be strongly evident by 2020 election and the business community will be very resentful about it. but then, about half of Trump's cabinet or senior staff has been reported calling him a moron or a fucking idiot behind the scenes. these two things are not unrelated.

The photo op/summit polled very well I thought. Beforehand for sure it was something majority wanted him to do. The unnecessary lines of praise toward KJU afterwards might hurt somewhat and who knows whatever disconcerting consequences come from his repeatedly lying about what the North Koreans agreed to.

well I won't pretend to be able to game out 2020 w any confidence at this point because who knows wtf is going to happen on this directionless rollercoaster. But if markets start to tank ahead of the Nov 2018 elections... I dunno how likely that is, economic consequences can take awhile.

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this tweet rules in every way

Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!

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

I doubt any Americans knew a G7 meeting even took place.

https://apnews.com/3361a7d5fa714ea4b028f0a29db1cabc

fuck all the GOP to fucking hell ASAP

this is a fukcing disgrace, I really dont think i can be more disgusted with this whole fucking thing. Just waiting for the stores of abuse and neglect that will eventually come to light in this damn concentration camps .

Ben Garrison agrees

#RobertMueller tears apart a family!! So cruel & Heartless to seperate Paul Manafort from his family! #EndTheWitchHuntNow #FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/E1fVWR3SeG

— Ben Garrison Cartoons at GrrrGraphics.com (@GrrrGraphics) June 15, 2018