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

some garbage from the nyt

So who was the target of that not-so-hidden message? That the first lady had shed the jacket by the time she disembarked in Texas may indicate it was not, in fact, the families at the heart of the immigration issue. Besides, there are numerous alternative possibilities, when you start to think about it.

...Or maybe, just maybe, it was a message for those of us who like to read messages into her clothes. One that said, “I’m going to wear whatever I want and I don’t care what you think about it.” After all, she wore the jacket again deplaning later at Andrews — wore it unapologetically knowing all the hoo-ha it had caused, the confusion and umbrage, the distraction from what she said was her core message of compassion. Wore it as if to give direct proof to the words on her back. That would be kind of meta.

so maybe, just maybe, she finally decided to word-attack those of us who like to read messages into her clothes, and decided to do it on the way to the visit to the shelter, perceptions be damned, and then again later that day after it had already pissed off and confused. fuck the timing, this attack against the message readers of clothing must commence ASAP

jesus who wrote that?

maybe, just maybe

Hey guys, maybe Melania Trump, who chose to marry one of the most wicked and repulsive people on earth, is also a bad person and, to the extent she’s ever discussed at all, should no longer receive the already far too generous benefit of the doubt

Like u seriously ever entertained the thought that she actually did give a shit about immigrant kids!?

of course not

anyway: http://www.santafedreamersproject.org/immigration-101-podcasts/

Found it in questionable taste that one of the sites for a Tender Age centre was on Emancipation Avenue.

(sorry for the street teaming but 4llegr4 and I have been friends for nearly 20 yrs and this stuff is important)

Trump favorable ratings (%)

Fox viewers: 82
Everyone else: 25

(Suffolk) https://t.co/qioNBOEVYm

— Adrian Gray (@adrian_gray) June 22, 2018

seen it posited elsewhere that the Trump admin is deliberately trying to provoke reactions at this point, between this, Ivanka's pic with her kid right as the baby jail story broke, and Miller & Nielsen going to eat at Mexican restaurants where they know they'll get shouted at. perhaps they saw the Sam Bee & Al Pacino stuff as wins for them and want to portray their opposition as vulgar, shouting animals, especially knowing that publications like the NYT will use it to "both sides" away the atrocities of this administration. seems plausible but then again, assuming these guys have a coherent shared plan at all is probably a mistake

These dudes have a super, highly researched and tested plan. Why the hell do you think they've been so successful?

Miller & Nielsen going to eat at Mexican restaurants where they know they'll get shouted at

don't buy this shit at all, sorry

pls stop attributing 4d chess strategy to these oblivious, cruel morons

These dudes have a super, highly researched and tested plan. Why the hell do you think they've been so successful?

― funzone76, Friday, June 22, 2018 3:38 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry but this is a terrible take, like the left-wing version of "crisis actors."

they're successful because the u.s. is largely a stupid racist place and they're stupid racists

Yeah.

I'm sure it took a great deal of forethought and careful planning for these monsters to all get on the same page re: behaving like monsters.

You're right, I'm just acting like a drunken wacko here. Probably should stay away from political shit from here on out.

Makes me act all crazy. Trump reminds me of my father. Really gets to me.

Go sleep it off, Larry.

^ sounds like a highly researched and tested plan that's bound to be successful

idk when Bannon explains that they enacted the travel ban on a Friday afternoon to draw the maximum amount of protestors and Miller talks about how having Kiddie Concentration Camp all over the news is actually good for them it kinda makes me think that these guys may be doing this kind of shit deliberately

I mean I highly doubt that Melania is in on it but this jacket thing is just so mindboggling and strange given how deliberate it obviously was

Occam would suggest: Melania is a monster.

I'm just glad we can finally, once and for all, put that "maybe she's secretly decent" shit behind us for fucking ever.

it is important to this administration that Americans remain as divided as possible

Melania is basically Carmella Soprano. She may not be the one who's pulling the trigger but she sure has enjoyed the fruits of that trigger pulling.

Godspeed to everyone out there doxing ICE agents, setting up shop in their field offices and obstructing their operations

xp - except all the real fruits she enjoyed were well in place before Trump declared his candidacy. reports that she hates the WH and being FLOTUS seem very believable.

Until or unless she literally curb stomps Donnie boy no one should give a fuck about her imho

She is, by design, extremely peripheral to this administration, so yeah, whatever she is or does is probably beneath notice in terms of real US politics.

Her primary utility AFAICT is as a galvanizing icon of sociopathic obliviousness so maybe she should just keep it up

They obviously want to make the midterms about immigration/white fear because they 100% believe that's how they won two years ago and they don't understand it was ~also electoral college + Comey. Between now and November that administration is going to trigger plenty of shit of the kind we saw in the past few days, wouldn't be surprised if the african american crime rate is the next thing they will get at for example. It works because Fox has their back no matter what at this point, it keeps that fuckface on 24/7 news cycle, and it keeps the base motivated enough to have leadership GOP on the defensive (who wants to be the next Sanford). No healthy democracy should have such a thing as a large Trump base, to begin with so in normal circumstances it would be a stupid plan, but let's not pretend like they didn't struck gold and they don't have monstrous calculations on how to mine racism and xenophobia in the coming months/years for their benefits. Melania may be in or out of these calculations with her jacket moment (I think she was fwiw), it doesn't matter as much as the White House refusing to make a clear apology and them once again mining the moment and portraying Melania as some sort of conspiracy victim.

good post, thanks

Not quite doxxing ICE agents but I approve

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Billboard-880-vandalized-make-kids-disappear-ice-13014667.php

https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/3632344_062118-kgo-droneview7-ice-billboard-raw-vid.jpg

It’s kind of dumb to be like ‘immigrants worked minus my faith in the democratic strictures of an oligarchy’ re trump maybe they’ll hit black on black crime again for a greatest hits redux.’

Two things: immigrants aren’t going away, for either the right or the left. Dox ICE on your way to abolishing them. Write on their Facebook pages; their wives’ twitter; their registries. Worry their grandparents.

Second: That middle ground between 5d chess and dumbfoubdery is latching on to a faceless El Salvadoran who can be whoever the country wants: ms13; hope. That chimera has no longer and hasn’t been for some time a super predator in Chi. This is Trump’s play.

Either way, THE DISCOURSE eats its children — it’s a fucking shame that so many are children. Ramp it up, don’t stop, eat DHS.

ohhhkay?

lion in winter, I can't even imagine what your emotional state must be like at this point, but you're doing heroic work that is greatly appreciated. I greatly appreciate it.

(Mods, is there a way to automatically affix a '(Note: lion in winter is an immigration lawyer in 2018, simultaneous with the presidency of Donald Trump.)' tagline to lion in winter's posts so I can stop getting so IA when someone inevitably responds to him with snark or dismissiveness?)

with or without knowledge of what lion in winter does (which is awesome) i thought that was a booming post

Far out - I was just having trouble parsing it. Maximum respect LIW.

A little extra background on Zara, makers of Melania's amazing lib-triggering dreamcoat:

• They had to recall a denim skirt that had a Pepe frog on it
• They had to recall a striped shirt with a six-pointed yellow star on the chest
• Jared Kushner owes Zara's parent company, Inditex, a lot of money - they have an interest in 666 Fifth Avenue

Zara is also a notorious knockoff fast-fashion label that steals from artists all the time because they (the smaller artists) rarely have the ability to sue

good mourning!

http://www.mtv.com/news/2194501/zara-discrimination-survey/

https://www.xojane.com/fashion/another-zara-racial-discrimination-case

Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2018

lol red wave

no, carne, the Red Wave

Is he making yet another disparaging remark about women's whatevers?

So while we discuss Melania this horror passed in the House.

I don't know about 4D chess but every time they manage to divert everybody's attention to some witless malfeasance that would seem like a gradeschool, Politics 101 to avoid there seems to be something else they are trying to get done in the background.

that's every US administration ever

speaking of which

(🎨 by @mshaw8730) pic.twitter.com/DYQTO95J5q

— 🌐IPM 💯🏧💍🌈🚀🚩 (@IPM_Prime) June 21, 2018

Dubya looks like Justin Bieber as a man.

Protestors are outside of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s Alexandria townhouse, playing audio of the detained children. She appears to be still be home. pic.twitter.com/akIcxOcM3q

— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 22, 2018

good