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

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5909515e6552fa0be682bce9/master/w_727,c_limit/dr-strangelove-still-580.jpg

So there we go: The whistleblower client Michael Avenatti teased allegedly got footage of one of the child camps in the southwest, which will supposedly be broadcast on MSNBC shortly.

NOW what happened? just larry?

Larry was the whistleblower. Rip buddy

APPLETON, LAWRENCE Larry Appleton was born in Everett, Massachusetts on May 12, 1933 and left this world on June 25, 2018. Larry lived in Florida for over 50 years and considered himself a transplanted Yankee. He loved his home in Geneva, Florida where he lived with his loving wife, Micki, for 44 years. Their home on Lake Harney was one of his passions and he often said that looking out his kitchen window onto the lake was like medicine to him. He loved the lake, fishing and boating. Both he and Micki enjoyed gardening. Their young children were raised on their mini ranch and have many wonderful memories of this time. Larry served in the United States Coast Guard before moving to Florida and then spent his entire 33 year working career at Martin Marietta. He was responsible for the company's food service, recreation and travel programs in Orlando and other facilities. Larry leaves behind his beloved wife, Micki, who has been his guiding angel; children, Lee Fedi, Alan Stuart Appleton, Jill Lund, Sandy Appleton, Judith Procell and Scott Appleton along with 10 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

(takes hat off, places it against his chest for a moment, replaces it on his head)

let's get back to the business of US politics

Having a hard time deciding which hysterical self-righteous post to fp tbh

larry is an object lesson in why sb was better than fp

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/video-diatribe-mexicans.html

A man and his mother were doing yard work in California when a woman unleashed a diatribe against Mexicans, and — invoking President Trump — called them rapists, animals and drug dealers.

The encounter was captured in a video that was posted on Twitter early Monday morning and had been viewed more than two million times by night.

In the video, which lasts about 35 seconds, the man — identified as Esteban Guzman — went back and forth with the unidentified woman, who at one point appeared to make a vulgar gesture with her middle finger.

“Why do you hate us?” Mr. Guzman asked.

“Because you’re Mexicans,” the woman said.

Mr. Guzman told the woman that “we’re honest people.” She laughed and countered with her own impressions: “Rapists. Animals. Drug dealers.” She mentioned the president, who has at times made similar remarks about illegal immigrants coming across the border, often from Mexico.

"Be careful what you wish for."

I knew I'd seen this Trump tweet before. https://t.co/sZ1Uh3oNNr pic.twitter.com/wnufVhHYnJ

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 25, 2018

Imagine what it would be like if we had the world's *most* racist person as president.

i give zero fucks about HD in general but this is insane

A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2018

Cannot wait until the Trumpists start going after bikers*. May they get the Altamont they so richly deserve.

(*Note: unsure of how much overlap there is in the 'biker/Trumpist' Venn diagram)

Big overlap, although the bikers, like all suburban dads, would deny it whenever it’s convenient

Well, then, I look forward to bikers attempting to reconcile their divided loyalties. Have a feeling Trump ain't gonna come out on top with that one.

trump vs. harley davidson has to be the quintessential racist baby boomer version of sophie's choice

— M//R (@BillyWerner) June 26, 2018

lmaooo

So I fixed the controversial TIME Magazine cover. This is much more appropriate. You’re welcome @time pic.twitter.com/VMDtGTj5Zy

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 25, 2018

Well, then, I look forward to bikers attempting to reconcile their divided loyalties. Have a feeling Trump ain't gonna come out on top with that one.

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Tuesday, June 26, 2018 8:52 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My Trump-loving father-in-law worked for Harley for several years and has owned them his entire life. I haven't seen his take on this contretemps yet but I find it very hard to imagine anything compelling him to sour on our soft wet oaf president at this point. Most likely he'll just separate the bikes and the good honest folk who work in the shops and factories from the out-of-touch assholes in corporate/upper management.

I just checked his FB page for the first time in a while and he recently shared a dank meme of a little Mexican girl petting a big German shepherd that says "They'll Turn Out Good if You Raise Them Right...The Dog Too." Lovely.

That management v line workers opinion comes so so soooooo close to a breakthrough tho xp

haha right, maybe i'm giving too much credit. siding with the proletariat to own the libs.

i like how this red-meat red-state all-american has now publicly shit on both the NFL and Harley-Davidson

They can take it, because they're American!

Gotta get NASCAR involved somehow.

BRB, gonna go start a line of car window stickers which replace Calvin with a cartoon version of Trump peeing on the various entities he's slagged off in his tweets. Gonna make a mint.

(P.S. Said stickers will be made with only the most toxic materials I can find. Which I figure is philosophically right in line with my anti-regulation customer base.)

Muslim ban upheld by SC

asbestos scratch and sniffs are the way to go xp

5-4 vote huh? fucking cock sucker McConnell is to blame for this shit xp

Congrats on making it happen, America. Become who you are. Let there be no doubt as to your true nature.

I'm at the point where I genuinely don't think this country is going to get un-fucked in my lifetime. Once this garbage starts getting set in stone by SC decisions, the paths to fixing things in Trump's wake become ever narrower.

Giving a tyrant enough rope is a terrible strategy and for the millionth time since 2016, time is not our friend. fatigue and internal turnover makes successful resistance ever less likely. but fine, wait for midterms.

yea it's not even so much today's rulings as it is the constant gerrymandering which require the Dems to win by 10 points in order to gain a seat. kinda underscores my ongoing theory that politics is just one giant game of Prisoner's Dilemma, wherein Obama tried to play nice and civil and got utterly fucked for it, while the GOP gleefully screws over everyone, breaks the law, and abuses the rules, and got rewarded with total power that will last a generation

NYC folks: there's a rally at Foley Square at 6.

I know the incumbent party doesn't do great in the midterms but I still say insist that Obama and Rahm's decision to let the banksters skate after destroying the economy in 2008 sealed their fate to get sonned in 2010

also helped trump's rhetoric about everything being 'rigged' in 2016

NYC folks: there's a rally at Foley Square at 6.

This one will surely be the one that brings the administration to its knees.

fuck off

public displays of solidarity and resistance are important in and of themselves

just thought people might want to know ffs xps

no you're good , i might stop by now that i know

possibly; I've only found them deeply depressing. particularly the ones with cheering when there is nothing to cheer about

Well you need to remain optimistic otherwise you just give up innit?

Is this just endless nihilism on the GOP side. I guess they're all oldish or whatever so they don't care what happens over the next 50 years BUt I'm still assuming there is a supposedly logical teleological end somewhere. maybe an epistemology that views dark skin as human is too out of step with this prevailing ethos.
BUt do have to hope taht something is going to stop this before whatever version of nazism, fascism MAGAism takes over completely.

so what's the alternative? yelling at people on the internets, doing nothing , having a bake sale ? xp

there is absolutely no reason to be optimistic given the chain of events, and optimism has been proven wrong daily since 2016, sometimes spectacularly wrong

xp there is no alternative, that's the worst part

optimism and nihilism are two sides of the same coin, swinging radically in either direction is not really helpful tbh

the joy is in the struggle, y'all - resistance is a valid end in and of itself

y'all know there are actual groups doing shit you can join or support, right

I mean, no? children are going to be carted to detention centers regardless of whether I stand in a street at 5:30 p.m. today, take a nap, or die

fuck that! there are all kinds of things to be optimistic about one being the amount of young people I encounter regularly that are out doing good things and fighting for what they believe in.

Leave the US.