US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

Also this, of course.

Shot. Chaser. pic.twitter.com/3HP4reajht

— Judah Ariel (@judahariel) February 11, 2019

mccarthy thinks stripping a literal nazi in his caucus of committee assignments gives him credibility to attack muslim congresswomen for antisemitism. cool country.

Yep. Anyone who has a problem with what Omar said but thinks McCarthy's tweet is somehow OK is not worth listening to on this subject.

Just after the infamous Access Hollywood tape surfaced — where President Trump is heard bragging about sexually assaulting women — the President was concerned it would sink his campaign, according to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

“He said, ‘Is it over?’” Christie told Fox News over the weekend. “I said, ‘No, because you are running against the single worst presidential candidate in my lifetime. So we’ve got time to recover. But we’ve got to do it the right way.’”

actually, i was in the room and i believe christie's verbatim response was "no, it's not even close to over, because this nightmare never ends. aaaahahahahahahahaha" before his blood poured out of his eyes and all of the nearby lights exploded

https://media2.giphy.com/media/l41m1NGC7fK7tduco/giphy.gif

The way to criticise AIPAC is to point out that they now accept neocons and evangelical Rapture wingnuts as supporters.

now they do?

Careful who you call “these people” boyo
I felt like I was pretty clearly referring to Israel's vocal public supporters, many of whom are not Jewish, but go off

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, February 11, 2019 10:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you forgot "go off KING" to be fully left twitter cool guy

didn't want to make gender assumption

Steve Scalise has joined the good faith anti semitism discourse and demanding Omar be removed from her foreign relations committee assignment. All according to the plan..

sorry for caps but

DEM LEADERSHIP WEIGHS IN ON OMAR pic.twitter.com/ravQQCQKea

— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 11, 2019

Good that some Dems have condemned the disgraceful anti-Semitic remarks of Rep. Omar—but their words are empty unless Dem leaders remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee. No one with her anti-Semitic views should be allowed to represent US foreign policy on that committee.

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) February 11, 2019

the Steve King-supporting Republicans calling this shit out just make me wanna vomit

almost forgot, yeah, it's that Steve Scalise

https://theweek.com/speedreads/440133/steve-scalise-reportedly-said-like-david-duke-without-baggage

maybe by "baggage" he means his dick and balls

yup

the republicans, who spent the campaign season going ham on "soros" and spreading all kinds of (not-so-)crypto-anti-semitic messaging (including my own congressman), don't have a leg to stand on. they can eat shit and *** tbh.

least of all steve "proud to be a racist" scalise

I wasn’t coordinated with anyone and I appreciate your feedback. I remain troubled by Congresswoman Omar’s referencing “Benjamins” from a song that also includes “You Should Do What We Do, Stack Chips Like Hebrews” and linking that reference to a Jewish organization.

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) February 11, 2019

she definitely got her political instincts from her Mom

The incongruity of media treatment of Democrats and Republicans is that the sitting President made a Native American genocide joke on Twitter just one day prior and the response was "wow, nothing surprises us anymore" and for conservative media figures to gaslight us because the President is too stupid to know the history of his favorite President Andrew Jackson.

there's also a hierarchy of how serious an insult to different groups is perceived.

republicans and right-wing democrats have weaponized the accusation of anti-semitism in a way that nobody has done for prejudice against american indians.

(i'm a jew btw)

my grammar was kind of messed up there but i hope my point is clear

lol at chelsea googling the lyrics for all about the benjamins

apparently congresswoman omar wants to be a baller? a shot-caller? a brawler?

Representative Omar's clearly betraying her leftist roots and siding with the 1% when she claims she's "strictly trying to cop those, colossal sized Picassos"

i think the reaction is overblown as it always is whenever a politician says anything a bit out of bounds, but it *was* kind of a dumb thing to say.

it *was* kind of a dumb thing to say.

Congress is filled with mental giants, so it is always rather shocking when one says something that can be described as 'kind of dumb'.

Dems throwing her under the bus is absolutely idiotic though

there are a lot of dems who were chomping at the bit to throw her under the bus

(sorry, mixed metaphor)

Listening and learning, but standing strong 💪🏽 pic.twitter.com/7TSroSf8h1

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 11, 2019

that's a good statement, and so is this:

STATEMENT: Weaponization and Oversimplification of Israel Debate Must End https://t.co/Vrz5OaBe5O pic.twitter.com/oTTY0tHWci

— J Street (@jstreetdotorg) February 11, 2019

jfc Dems suck

Rep. Omar’s use of an anti-Semitic stereotype was offensive and irresponsible.

This kind of intolerance has no place in Congress—or anywhere in American society.

No one should invoke anti-Semitic tropes during policy disagreements.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 11, 2019

yes to be clear the Dem response is also extremely dumb

I dont think the mainstream dems want much to do with ilham omar. They have to seem to tolerate eg bernie and aoc because of their popularity

fwiw I thought "all about the Benjamins" was a reference to Netinyahu

not that I expect much from establishment Dems but immediately siding with bad faith GOP actors in the age of Trump is still infuriating

schumer is definitely siding with his donors who called to complain rather than the GOP, but it's still annoying.

that j street statement is well put

donors, you say?

ugh "weaponization"

weaponized mimosas

"The Biden Test" is when you ask yourself what portion of the negative response to a woman, millennial, or other person threatening mainstream liberal stances would be, say, "Diamond Joe lays down hip-hop knowledge on AIPAC tweet" if the former VP said it.

Try it out!

The letter concerned the company’s release of a magazine praising Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, published to coincide with a visit he took to Washington in March 2018.

“According to your submission, [U.S. corporation] created and published [publication] [text deleted], to coincide with the visit of [foreign government leader],” the redacted letter reads.

The DOJ decided that American Media’s activities did not qualify it as a foreign agent under FARA.

The letter also says that American Media hired an unnamed advisor to the Saudi government to write an article for and edit the magazine, titled “The New Kingdom.”

The WSJ reported that the magazine included an editorial praising the Saudi leader by French financial advisor Kacy Grine, who has experience working in Saudi Arabia and who reportedly visited Trump in July 2017 with American Media CEO David Pecker and Chief Content Officer Dylan Howard.

Pecker admitted last year to buying embarrassing stories about Trump and not publishing them as part of an immunity-for-testimony deal with federal prosecutors investigating Michael Cohen.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wsj-national-enquirer-publisher-asked-doj-if-it-should-register-as-saudi-agent

Bibi plays footsie with *literal* nazis and the democrat leadership is busy w a bad-faith interpretation a female muslim rep's tweet. cool country.

fwiw someone pointed out to me that All About the Benjamins has the line "stackin chips like the Hebrews." Suddenly I started to second guess my reaction -- is it a dog whistle?

still think its just a clever reference to Netanyahu

was there a firestorm over this? just wondering

Eric Trump says Bob Woodward wrote book to make "shekels" https://t.co/ikdmWOxKv2 pic.twitter.com/klUPxlJ3gu

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 13, 2018

i dunno, many ppl in the pre-panic days used shekels casually... maybe if Woodward was Jewish

there's totally going to be another shutdown right?

A lot of older Jews use shekels in a slangy way fwiw, probably entered the lexicon through them along with putz and schmuck and chutzpah

yes but if airline workers strike it'll probably be short lived

feelin' the Dems are gonna cave this time but who knows

And I thought we couldn’t possibly get a stupider non-story than “OMG the white house intern might have made an OK sign!”

AMI is so goddamn crooked. i mean that was obvious. i was rereading a piece about ami, trump, and the saudis from last year and these bits stuck out in the context of 11 feb 19:

And by January, Mr. Pecker was confident enough about his growing rapport with Saudi investors that he sought their help bankrolling a possible acquisition of Time magazine, which he had long coveted, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. A.M.I. disputed that.

...

Mr. Pecker has continued to hunt for new acquisitions. Last year, he bought Us Weekly from Wenner Media. But money remained scarce, according to A.M.I.’s financial advisers. When Mr. Pecker’s friend Harvey Weinstein suggested last fall that they team up to purchase Rolling Stone, Mr. Pecker expressed little interest. “I can not contribute any cash,” he wrote in an email obtained by The New York Times.
In that same Sept. 28 exchange, he wrote to Mr. Weinstein: “I am in Saudi Arabia on business. Can’t call from here.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/david-pecker-trump-saudi-arabia.html

the circle of all the worst men is pretty wide!