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

Billy Graham's son and the Catholic bishops both came out strongly vs the child detentions this week.

Let's see if they're willing to protest.

second most hated man

― obviously DLC (Karl Malone)

give him a couple months and he probably will be

Billy Graham's son... came out strongly vs the child detentions this week.

that is legitimately shocking

“No one in our government is willing to take moral lectures from because we're people who support and perpetuate policies that grievously harm innocent Americans,” Mr. Miller added

FIXED

If the generational shift the author is describing has already happened in the SBC, then it was a shift that made no difference to U.S. politics in 2016. It's hard to believe that whatever is happening with Southern Baptists is anything but a gradual, almost imperceptible, change in terms of voting patterns.

The worst outcome for the Republicans would be an erosion of their control over the political organizing power the churches represent. Churches are the nuclei of community in the rural south, at least as potent as the local high school football team.

― A is for (Aimless), 17. juni 2018 00:58 (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, you're probably right, but the article seems to me to be claiming the shift is in response to 2016 and #MeToo.

Chuck Schumer said “the Summit was what the Texans call all cattle and no hat.” Thank you Chuck, but are you sure you got that right? No more nuclear testing or rockets flying all over the place, blew up launch sites. Hostages already back, hero remains coming home & much more!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 17, 2018

hero remains coming home & much more!

a brand new bestie for one.

“what’s that? no, i meant a hero remains, coming home. was talkin bout myself! Great!”

Wtf @ “all cattle and no hat” rmde

It’s “all hat and no cattle” u morans

Makes a lot more semantic sense that way dunnit.
All cattle and no hat means things would be too real or sumthin surely?
Or people might be about to get sunburn

http://www.popculturediedin2009.com/post/174807017021/madtv-predicted-a-trump-north-korea-summit-in-2005

So the backwards phrase was actually Schumer not Trump? Could see T spoonerising it . since i thought he made a habit of things like that.
Is Schumer also much of a wordmangler.
Seems to have made some odd decisions for an opposition spokesman recently anyway.

never thought i'd say it but fuck man i miss harry reid

schumer will do that to you. when reid indicated that he was the heir apparent it was such a deflating moment, in the wake of the election

Reid's only talent was for fighting, offensive or defense it didn't matter to him. That's why he's missed.

Well, not only his only talent: He runs the Nevada Dem machine, which accounts for its turning blue.

My hometown in Michigan (heavy GOP territory) was devastated by flash floods overnight, rly trying to hold off making trump/bootstrap/FEMA etc jokes today.

Moderate asshole Susan Collins:

Wow. This is the private letter @SenatorCollins is sending to her constituents rationalizing Trump's policy of separating children from their families. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/WmY5ZQYxUQ

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 16, 2018

trying to hold off making trump/bootstrap/FEMA etc jokes today.

you're a better person than i

the USA is creepy as fuck

If this is just about to blow up in Sessions face because he's the most vocal supporter and instigator of it , will he take anything else with him when he goes.

Todd noted the headline came from an Washington Post article that included an unnamed White House official who said “the thinking in the building is to force people to the table.”

Conway said she wanted “that person to say that to my face.”

But, over and over, she tied Trump’s separation policy to congressional negotiations.

“I would tell everybody, this week, when the President goes to Congress at 5:30 on Tuesday, get together,” Conway said at one point, before an astonishing attempt to blame Democrats for not bringing the issue up during a televised meeting between Trump and members of Congress in January, three months before the new policy was announced.

“One hour! Did this issue come up?” she asked. “The Democrats only want to talk about DACA.”

“Kids weren’t being separated from their parents then!” Todd said. “This policy [was] implemented in April!”

Conway was unfazed: “What they should have said is, look, we had a surge over the border in 2014, Mr. President, under President Obama, and it shocked everyone, and we simply didn’t have the capacity. We want to avoid that in the future and work with you.”

I'm leaving the ICE Detention facility in Elizabeth, NJ after having met with 5 men, fathers, who came here seeking asylum and instead were separated from their families. This is what they shared with me: pic.twitter.com/9JcCBCPBMO

— Carolyn B. Maloney (@RepMaloney) June 17, 2018

I pass this place every time I take the train into NYC.

if Obama had done what Trump did re Kim (not SAID what he did), Schumer wd be over the moon I suspect

I suspect that the Christian identity/patriarchy cultists (as described here) have zero issue with the current state of things on the border..

https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a21345667/stay-at-home-daughters-christian-patriarchy/

Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country. Has anyone been looking at the Crime taking place south of the border. It is historic, with some countries the most dangerous places in the world. Not going to happen in the U.S.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018

mourning!

go back to wherever you were, melania

But Melania Trump weighed in, saying she “hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together.” Mrs. Trump “believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with a heart,” the first lady’s office said in a statement.

By laying responsibility for the situation on “both sides,” Mrs. Trump effectively echoed her husband’s assertion that it was the result of a law written by Democrats. In fact, the administration announced a “zero tolerance” approach this spring, leading to the separations.

she should just say "be best" and nothing else. be best

It is the Democrats fault for being weak and ineffective with Boarder Security and Crime. Tell them to start thinking about the people devastated by Crime coming from illegal immigration. Change the laws!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018

wait we're being boarded now?

saw someone on Twitter remark that Trump's at the "I don't want to hit the kids, but when you don't listen to what I say you make me hit the kids" stage of his presidency

this has to be one of the most plainly shameful episodes in the history of this country. this is happening in real time, in broad daylight, we see it as it's happening rather than learning about it in retrospect.

this century is going to be full of immigration and migrant crises, thanks in part to the only major political party on earth who denies climate science. the early returns on the way the US will handle this are gutwrenching.

Is Crime going to be a proper noun now? It sounds very dystopian.

"you have been found guilty of Crime"

the Hives invented Crime as noun i think

I saw reference to how people acted during the Holocaust and a few other actual witch hunts and how you'd know how you'd react by your response to this current situation.
It is going to be on record that a first world country tried to get away with this.
Hopefully somebody is going to go down for it and rapidly.
Outcry is happening across the globe.

If Sessions is the main person who is actively advocating this and not trying to say that it has to be obeyed because it is the law, is he likely to be crucified for it. & if he does is everything remotely positive that is happening because he has not been removed from the position as AG already safeguarded?

'The Hives - Invents Crime as a Proper Noun'
Track 16 on Veni Vidi Vicius.

this is so disgusting. i hate this all so much!

sessions is one of many people advocating this. john kelly, the chief of staff, is a strong advocate for this policy. and there are many more people who support the policy by not giving a shit about it and continually voting for the cowards who won't lift a finger against our petulant child-president. my parents are these people. every morning i read the news and it fills me with rage and shame that i'm related to people who defend them. i can't believe that i read through Eichmann in Jerusalem back in lol college without realizing that my parents were Eichmann, or at least they would be if given the chance. the banality of evil is real. i wish i could rearrange my dna and become a plant.

sessions won't be crucified for anything, and if he is, he'll be the last to know about it. he'll be shielded inside a maze of lies until he leaves this wretched earth. they are all living in an alternate state of reality which they've constructed together. they have so much money that the consequences of their actions hardly matter. even purely evil people like scott pruitt are jealous, because he doesn't have the money to fully protect himself within their maze - he's too close to the common people for comfort, it's agonizing for him. trump's rage against those who attack him is based less on the substance of their complaints and more that someone dares to threaten their alternate world. meanwhile the rest of us can only hope that some mechanical claw of the law, or what's left of it, can hover over their bullshit island and pull him out by the neck so we can all have a momentary glimpse of something real, no matter how ugly it gets.

also fuck the hives

https://i.imgur.com/ZQmJ1wF.png

In "lol nothing matters" news, let's contemplate the way the administration says all of the following things:

- It's a horrible thing that is Democrats' fault
- It's an entirely defensible deterrent, and perfectly normal law enforcement
- That's not actually happening, you're wrong because Fake News
- But if it WERE happening, it would be okay because if THEY didn't break the law it wouldn't be happening
- But it's still Obama's and Hillary's fault because reasons

...without needing to address (or even pretend there is a need to address) the contradictions and hypocrisy.

If it were not being used in the service of unmitigated evil I might say the brazen DGAFness had a sort of majesty.

not to mention the whole "they're not cages"/"well they're sort of cages, but we don't treat them like animals"/"it really hurts our feelings when you call them cages" thing

xpost yeah, this whole administration is quintessential domestic abuser "Look what you made me do."

The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018

he's really close to just tweeting out the 14 words isn't he

xpost in an earlier rehearsal for this episode:

- global warming is not real
- in fact, global cooling might be the real problem
- if global warming is real, humans aren't the driver of it
- there is no consensus on global warming
- this is consensus on global warming, but it’s a conspiratorial consensus. scientists across the world are part of a conspiracy. the entire world except for the republican party is in on this conspiracy.
- global warming is actually a good thing, for agriculture
- if global warming is real and humans are the driver of it and it's a bad thing, there's nothing we can do about it at this point

at some point in the near future i expect they'll add "liberals caused global warming" to the list

Yerac OTM. I'm not saying these guys are smart - merely that the playbook has the brutal effectiveness of "Stop hitting yourself! Why are you hitting yourself?" going for it.

It's like "the news is fake but the leaks are real." The brazenness and sloppiness are features, not bugs.

Say enough vague, confusing, but nevertheless rousing shit and you can address all your key audiences simultaneously, while not saying anything specific enough to fix your position in time or space.

At the same time, be sure to undermine the legitimacy of anyone who questions the content or the conduct of your anticommunicative communications strategy.

kirstjen neilsen is john kelly in a wig, right?

Ye Mad Puffin OTM. I tuned in to CSPAN for the first time in ages this morning, and I heard Republican-line callers argue all five of those things in some form or another. So I guess the contradictory statements the administration is issuing are "successful," in that their base have no problem internalizing and regurgitating all of them.