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

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Trump: "Socialism does not work too well. And we don't want that as part of our country and as part of our heritage. We just can't have it. Everything would come to an end and rapidly and then all of a sudden you'd see things happening and you'd say 'What's going on.'"

Trump... gets it?

Everything would come to an end and rapidly and then all of a sudden you'd see things happening

No, you wouldn't. Because you just said everything came to an end. Which would mean that there were no things happening.

and you'd say 'What's going on.'"

Except no, once again. You WOULDN'T say that. Because nothing would be going on! You literally JUST established that everything came to an end.

Also, someone else please insert Linda Perry hat-goggle gif here because I'm too tired

https://66.media.tumblr.com/df6833cd787664628258b0bde6739b64/tumblr_mmdivxhE1b1s030vuo1_500.gif

was that particular steampunk look well established by the mid 90s or was she an innovator?

Burning Man moved to Nevada ~1990 and she was prime "burner" material...

Grisso/McCain = hero

this guy is the worst

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/trump-green-new-deal-socialism/index.html

this guy = Cillizza

All these people whining about how much it would cost to implement the GND while being fine with spending TRILLIONS on tax cuts for the rich and stupid wars that nobody asked for should kill themselves STFU.

And Trump is talking about a frickin' Space Force and Mars adventures too, which I'm sure will also cost trillions.

I wrote about how McConnell's attempt to troll Democrats will actually be very good for the Green New Deal. https://t.co/0BsrlKw2wV

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) February 13, 2019

can't quite believe Shithead knows what the Trail of Tears was

also most of his stupid wars were started by his predecessors

I finally saw Wellman’s The Purchase Price. Pretty good I think I liked it more than you did. Stanwyk is great but all the pre-codes of his I’ve seen are pretty bracing in the way the narrative shifts unexpectedly imo

such good news: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/11/18220721/utah-medicaid-expansion-prop-3-sb96

^^^did the brits hear about this

But it didn't make a big splash outside those circles, because the sad truth is that everyone already expects people like Eric Trump to casually traffic in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It's a man bites dog story.

dog bites man

he bit him like a dog

it's literally tearing me apart Lisa

ha whoops for Tommy Wiseau thread^

dog bites man

oops yeah i pretty much got screwed by the pooch

that escalated quickly

Good morning!

The Gallup Poll just announced that 69% of our great citizens expect their finances to improve next year, a 16 year high. Nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2019

actually a good tweet

if he was actually doing the 69-nice! thing but who knows

i feel like the 69-nice thing had crested, but when trump does it you know it's dead

holy shit my brain cannot process Trump making a 69-nice joke, I think I need to go lie down.

I mean I'm sure he isn't familiar with the joke at all, I'm sure Dan Scavino or whatever the fuck his name is wrote that one.

Poking through the comments on that one and once again wondering why the fuck Jacob Wohl isn't waking up on a prison cot this morning.

Pretty sure Scavino spells it "noice," that's the key tell.

I know consumer confidence has historically served as a measure of economic health, but seeing it in Trump language makes it seem onion-headline-level dumb

Meanwhile in reality

BREAKING: A record 7 million Americans are 90 days+ behind on their auto loan payments, a red flag for the economy, @NewYorkFed reports.

It's a million more people behind than during the financial crisis era. Many are under 30 years old.https://t.co/bgpsPgghcK #economy pic.twitter.com/XdLVLiL5zn

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) February 12, 2019

hard to pay those auto loans when you have to pay those student loans

you can't get a job unless you have a degree, even though in most jobs you end up using 0.01% of what was learned in college. can't get a degree unless you take out student loans. can't get a job to pay off the student loans unless you have a car, in most of the country. life: the human centipede

Why not just take out a bridge loan. Why not ask father to write a check. You could even sell one of your yachts if things are really that desperate. I don't know why I have to lead people by the nose through the world of financial planning.

or you could rent out one or two of the 26 bedrooms in your house. this isn't rocket science.

can't ask dad for money until you call or write him an email. can't call or write until the wi-fi on the yacht works again. wi-fi on the yacht won't work until the butler or whatever (percy?) fixes it. percy is all the way over there, and your vocal cords are tender in the morning

you could also cut percy's hours, or cancel his employer-sponsored insurance plan. that should save at least a few hundred smackers a month.

the agony of having to try to tell percy to fix the wi-fi on the yacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7yJ7sMosk

Trump ruined 69. nooo!! :(

we all know the answer to all our financial woes is tax advantaged job training savings accounts. c'mon guys.

Nothing gets my goat like people acting as if there aren't countless poors roaming around waiting for their superiors to exploit them.

NYT/Upshot should call this NLP tool the "Grift-Tracker":

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/13/upshot/detailed-timeline-trumps-words-border-wall.html

This attitude from @IlhanMN -- don't question me, just quote my tweets -- is a problem on both sides of the aisle. Politicians' tweets aren't a substitute for journalism, they're a starting point for journalism. https://t.co/3m1JgKoGRt

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 13, 2019

lmao they get so mad when they have to cover Dems the same way they do Republicans

apparently she is (very appropriately) unloading on elliot abrams

yep, I linked her comments on the VZ thread. fucking badass.

now there's video

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4779974/representative-omar-clashes-elliott-abrams-us-military-role-central-america

Does she call him "Mr. Adams?"

trump doing 69 just reveals its inherent badness imo

apparently she is (very appropriately) unloading on elliot abrams

she's good, folks