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

I don't own a restaurant, but if I did, and if a person I didn't like tried to patronize my restaurant, and I would rather they not but had already done so, I would think that instead of asking them for a private word out on the patio with the intention of asking them to leave, I'd prefer to politely confront them in front of everyone with the reasons I didn't like them, and then let them know their meal was on the house before letting them go ahead and leave whenever they felt sufficiently humiliated enough to do so. But straight up asking someone to leave, whether you take them aside privately beforehand or not, is frankly unamerican.

― del griffith

I admit to feeling slightly uncomfortable too but according to the manager she let them finish their meal.

Yeah it's easy to imagine how it can escalate in the worst possible way for people of color and the lgbtq community.

I agree and I think the way the Hamilton cast addressed Mike Pence, for example, is a better thing to do...however that actor revealed recently that he was bombarded with death threats for ages after that. so no fucking pleasing everyone. MAGAs don't give a fuck if you're polite or not

The Washington Post reports:

The White House’s hastily crafted executive order to end child separations spurred confusion and fights within the federal government, and second-guessing from the president who had demanded the order in the first place.

In private conversations with aides, Trump said he wanted to sign a full immigration bill as part of an executive order, which one administration official described as “a pretty insane idea.” The president was told by government lawyers that he could not change immigration law by fiat, said a person familiar with the discussions.

Trump then demanded that an executive order be written, and said he wanted it on his desk for signing by that afternoon, according to people involved in the discussions. Given hours to produce a complex legal document, government lawyers crafted one that met the moment’s political demands but only added to confusion within the agencies tasked with implementing it.

Goat Rodeo

Goat Rodeos, July 2018

The Goatest Rodeo

Donald Trump's Goatse Rodeo

mountin’ goats

Goat Mournting!

It’s very sad that Nancy Pelosi and her sidekick, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, want to protect illegal immigrants far more than the citizens of our country. The United States cannot stand for this. We wants safety and security at our borders!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2018

We wants it!

I doubt Trump is that savvy, but I wonder if any of his staff tell him "the typos are good! They make your base feel better about themselves! Leave the typos!"

Again with this 'far more' shit. How about this: I care far more about protecting undocumented immigrants than I do about protecting you and the people who enable you. If I had the power, I would reassign the Secret Service to protecting them and leaving you to fend for yourself. Signed, a lib.

So racism is pretty much the only plank of Trump's midterms campaign then.

xxp

I thought this was a confirmed thing they were really doing.

On the reorganization stuff, I have been approached by a client about doing some consulting work on the proposed GSA/OPM merger. I'm not even remotely interested in helping these mousefuckers (even if they were to accidentally try to do something beneficial, as Karl says) so no. But it's also not going to happen. I am not sure how harshly I should judge people who want to make money off of failure, but that's a separate question.

but it kind of seems obvious to me that militaries from across the world will be in space

Yabbut we have the already existing Air Force Space Command http://www.afspc.af.mil/ as well as Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command http://www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pages/default.aspx .

The party of small government advocating the creation of a new redundant bureaucracy, oh my paws and fucking whiskers

Sooooo not going to happen?

Space Force camo, spotted on FB:

https://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36043836_256982791718521_7104012620687998976_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=54210608814d75cf3a0bf6185a611a8c&oe=5BE936BC

I’m still maintaining the reality that I just hallucinated the whole “space force” thing.

I would never bugger a man wearing tapered pants. He'd have to look like Jake Gyllenhaal.

anyway, send to your friends:

The money behind DC made its decision a long time ago: profits over people. They will happily accept fascism as the price required to keep the people suppressed. pic.twitter.com/6PV2XwgMrL

— Being weird isn't enough 🤕 (@Lostwanderfound) June 24, 2018

I am not sure how harshly I should judge people who want to make money off of failure, but that's a separate question.

more hostage-taking

HOUSTON — Central American men separated from their children and held in a detention facility outside Houston are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation order now, according to one migrant at the facility and two immigration attorneys who have spoken to detainees there.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/24/kids-exchange-deportation-migrants-claim-they-were-promised-they-could/

Incivility would be kidnapping Sarah Sanders’ kids, caging them, and only reuniting them with her if she agrees to leave the country. Refusing her a meal is merciful.

— David Klion 🔥 (@DavidKlion) June 24, 2018

Even Kamala Harris is leaning towards joining the call to abolish ICE (though "we need to probably think about starting from scratch” lacks oomph)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-abolish-ice_us_5b2fb918e4b0321a01d25415?utm_source=reddit.com

she's a prez hopeful -- that's how it goes

Sanders dodged the question today but I'd put money on him pivoting in the next week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O973zLjkCuw

meanwhile, OccupyICE folks continue to get the goods

Just announced that ICE cancelling operations at 201 Varick Street tomorrow (Monday). #OccupyICENYC pic.twitter.com/oZNhSWOU5W

— VictoriaLaw (@LVikkiml) June 25, 2018

It would be hilarious if he didn't have nuclear weapons.

.@jimmyfallon is now whimpering to all that he did the famous “hair show” with me (where he seriously messed up my hair), & that he would have now done it differently because it is said to have “humanized” me-he is taking heat. He called & said “monster ratings.” Be a man Jimmy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018

seriously messed up

ratings monster

How can you seriously mess up hair that is already seriously messed up

I just freaked out and tried to escape to a parallel universe where Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon both don't exist

US Politics, July 2018: He Seriously Messed Up My Hair (womp womp)

The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018

That's my rule for politicians too!

Oh, fuck this.

It's amazing how my desire to watch him get helplessly sucked into some piece of heavy machinery and ground into chum only grows with every day and every utterance.

That would be too quick and oblivious a death.

President Yelp

Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go - will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018

manythousands

who needs judges when you can just hire someone to people that what they're doing is illegal

I thought the government was already trying to send a lot of Air Force judges to help out with the prosecution of border crossers.
So assumed he was behind that. Hope it did manage to get stopped though

boo hoo math is hard!

have we ever had such a wimpy, crybaby president??

im sure we have they just didn't get a chance to poop their pants all over twitter like this one .

so glad the national discourse has switched from kids being put in cages and potentially never getting to see their families again to some lady getting kicked out of a restaurant

Is it strategic restaurant choice? Did Kjirstjen Neilsjen deliberately go to a specifically Mexican restaurant at this time for this reason.& is the Red Hen known for liberal staff or something?

they are not that smart

I keep hearing people ask/speculate along those lines and my considered answer is a) almost certainly not and b) it makes not a whit of difference xp