US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

he's just doing us all a favor

maybe he's got the shits

This would be the perfect time to impeach him.

The massive inefficiency with which the WH is run, which then extends to all departments of government, is one of the few saving graces of this administration. Imagine the damage that would be inflicted on us if Trump were ruthlessly efficient at implementing the agenda he espoused during the campaign. The stumblebum, ramshackle manner in which he runs things is a blessing.

so v true

he's absolutely a fascist, but luckily he is a totally incompetent fascist

remember that Cohen was Hannity's lawyer too

how easy would it be for this asshole to coast to a second term if he were even a bit less messy xp

NARRATOR: He coasted easily to a second term

I don't think he's gonna coast, this election is going to be insane

Exclusive: The Trump administration has decided that Vietnamese migrants who arrived before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation. https://t.co/njUnvAjm8x

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 12, 2018

he didn't coast last time and lost the popular vote and there's absolutely nothing that suggests it won't be harder for him next time

That decision re Vietnam is insane. Talk about losing OC forever now.

Are we gonna deport Cubans now too?

this election is going to be insane

All of 2019, too. We are not yet close to maxed out on the US capacity to generate insanity.

I just finished watching Tanner '88 for the umpteenth time along with lots of little news snippets from that period (eg Rather's contentious live interview with Bush) and...gee, what a quaint and sedate little election cycle that was!

Are we gonna deport Cubans now too?

obviously not, since they vote Republican

Am sure most of the Vietnamese are US citizens. This trend of right-wingers cancelling naturalised people’s citizenship for ANY reason makes me very angry.

Nationalized Cubans will deport themselves if it meant a free Cuba.

obviously not, since they vote Republican

Please tell me you're being incredibly sarcastic. The Vietnamese community in OC has overwhelmingly voted for the GOP for decades, and that trend has only recently changed.

Nationalized Cubans will deport themselves if it meant a free Cuba.

Romney was right!

yes that was sarcasm

xp

(mostly based on what is likely the one thing Trump can remember about Cubans from FL - they deliver him votes. Trump probably doesn't remember anything about Vietnam, except his bone spurs)

xp

it is def a weird thing for them to do, not sure which wing of the GOP base needed to have its anti-Vietnamese prejudices appeased

A certain S. Miller leaps to mind.

he's absolutely a fascist, but luckily he is a totally incompetent fascist

Actually, Nazi Germany was notoriously inefficient and ramshackle, with underlings more concerned with competing with each other to get in the Fuhrer's good books than actually running the country.

who said anything about Nazis

it is def a weird thing for them to do, not sure which wing of the GOP base needed to have its anti-Vietnamese prejudices appeased

nazism of small differences

Oh, I forgot, they were Socialists.

not sure what argument you're having or with who but carry on

Confirmed: Trump told Meadows he wants him to remain in Congress rather than be next COS

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 12, 2018

so meadows said no, huh https://t.co/ZNzF74XCEt

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 12, 2018

not sure what argument you're having or with who but carry on

You're the one that's having it. Leave me out of it.

good shit guys

he's absolutely a fascist, but luckily he is a totally incompetent fascist

Actually, Nazi Germany was notoriously inefficient and ramshackle, with underlings more concerned with competing with each other to get in the Fuhrer's good books than actually running the country.

― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 3:23 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did mussolini really make the trains run on time? why do ppl say that? my gut says it's bullshit but i don't know

The lampposts were second to none. In Milan anyway.

A certain S. Miller leaps to mind.

yeah, the constant roiling chaos on top at the moment is letting Miller get a new policy through every week or so, while the news pays attention to the narcissist

He coordinated his coup using the railway.

(Mussolini, that is.)

I dunno where the thread to rate the competency (however that is measured) of fascist regimes is, but it's not this one fwiw

xp

EPA announced plans to axe the Clean Water Act yesterday

Flashback:

Trump widens a generation gap in Vietnamese community: Older hard-liners vs. liberal youths

By ANH DO
FEB 19, 2017

80-year-old Steve Tran lifted the lid on the news rack along Little Saigon's Moran Street and exclaimed: "Great man!"

"I tell you, this idea he has of keeping out Muslims is the right thing to do," said the 80-year-old, a refugee of the Vietnam War. "We are the good refugees. They're not political refugees like we were. There are two types of people who want to come to America — those who seek freedom and those who go out to destroy it."

But Tran's grandson takes a decidedly grimmer view of Trump's crackdown, and that speaks to a larger generational divide in a community so profoundly built around its refugee roots.

"It's a little racist to consider that Muslims are terrorists and to think that if one Muslim does something bad, others are like him too. That's not what I was taught," Kevin Tran, 14, said.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-viet-refugees-20170219-story.html

oh look Pelosi's going to be Speaker after all

Dunking on Trump to his face sure didn't hurt.

she should be speaker now, she shouldn't be in December 2020

generally speaking I don't like term limits as a policy, but 4 years makes sense for her because best case scenario the Dems re-take the WH in 2020 and solidify their House majority, she's there to shepherd through major legislation when it will be most likely to pass prior to them likely losing seats in 2020, when it will be time for new leadership.

Not to be glib about Shakey's and my rep, but 78's a good age and all. If the idea is she'll wrap up when she's 82, I don't exactly blame her.

that too

Who would be her successor, if she passed away?

did mussolini really make the trains run on time? why do ppl say that? my gut says it's bullshit but i don't know

― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've read that in addition to the coup thing it was also a sarcastic acknowledgement that things generally sucked in Italy at the time, that indeed not even the trains ran on time