US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

A good breakdown of how much Barr's letter elides in weasel words:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/mueller-report-barr-summary-obstruction-conspiracy-close-reading.html

He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020.

But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 24, 2019

Big news — Trump’s Justice Department says in a new court filing that the entire ACA should be struck down in a lawsuit (this is a shift; DOJ previously didn’t go that far).https://t.co/tlo3fVedPa pic.twitter.com/C4OfDs79jF
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 26, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, March 25, 2019 10:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god love these fucking dopes for gaining a shred of political capital in the past few days and then immediately shooting themselves in the dick.

awesome news for Dem presidential candidates and House/Senate candidates.

Good morning!

@_waleedshahid
"The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution...the solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids." -@SenMikeLee on @AOC and @SenMarkey's Green New Deal

i just lost 80,000 brain cells

Mike Lee is considered one of the greatest constitutional scholars of his generation.

kids are so bad for the carbon footprint

i like how it's not just the solution to climate change, it's the solution to everything

oil spill? can't make rent? shin splints? get fuckin

Then hurl the children into the sun, that'll show it!

Start here and just keep scrolling:

Here’s a template. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/G1qZqOoWv8

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 26, 2019

charges against Jussie Smollett dropped, that's kind of unexpected

kind of unexpected to come up in the politics thread too but i guess it's a big bucket these days!

lying to police should make you eligible for awards, not charges

Smollett faked a MAGA attack. I wonder why it took so long to come up on this thread.

But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.

um u great but:
1 without it, your goals are sooo much harder, if not impossible, and
2 completely justified in ways that surpass historical systematic ills.

or “systemic” which i think i phonetyped

without what?

can't believe AOC is voting for trump next year

still, I endorse referring to Trump as "it."

daaamn

Like many other women + working people, I occasionally suffer from impostor syndrome: those small moments, especially on hard days, where you wonder if the haters are right.

But then they do things like this to clear it right up.

If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything. https://t.co/vU4ChbTnnr

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 26, 2019

lol she wrote, and i quoted “(b)ut removing trump...”. i think my real shortfall was not starting 2 with “it is completely justified...”. Who are you the rachel maddow of phonetype grammar?

LA Times, of all places, has the scoop

https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/full-leaked-robert-mueller-report

🤬

scathing

two rickrolls in one thread? good job guys.

these are very long threads.

https://www.latlmes.com/obituaries/simon-h-3

LA Times

LA Tlmes, you mean

is that anything like Rashida Tlaib?

Apparently the Mueller report will not be turned over to Congress for weeks, and will first be reviewed and redacted by the WH.

The entire point of the special counsel’s investigation - to avoid the perception that the investigation and it’s conclusions are politicized - has been undermined.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.

"We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.

It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.

While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos' budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget. President Trump proposed a $4.7 trillion overall budget this month with an annual deficit expected to run about $1 trillion.

It calls for eliminating billions in grants to improve student achievement by reducing class sizes and funding professional development for teachers as well as cutting funds dedicated to increasing the use of technology in schools and improving school conditions. In many cases, DeVos said the purpose of the grants has been found to be redundant or ineffective.

In the case of the $17.6 million cut to help fund the Special Olympics, a program designed to help children and adults with disabilities, DeVos suggested it is better supported by philanthropy and added, "We had to make some difficult decisions with this budget."

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/26/betsy-devos-special-olympics/3278388002

If the white house so much as touches it prior to release i am not adverse to anything yet, but i dont know what ppl might have in mind.

devos is a void of evil

I live in Ground Zero for charter school hell

wow, special olympics even. thees people have zero shame.

https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/kublai-khan-found-alive-and-given-key-cabinet-position-3

"we had to make some difficult decisions" should be an instant ticket to Hell.

If someone proposed turning Betsy DeVos into a set of fancy luggage, I'd like to think that I would protest the essential inhumanity of such a horrific act, but I can't say with absolute certainty that I would. I might need to confer with my pastor on this moral conundrum, guys.

How did we go from Rickrolls to open Buffalo Bill fantasies

it's that kind of day

Rickrolls to Buffalo Bill Fantasies: My Years in the Trump Family

well DJT did try to purchase the Bills, maybe that was just a fantasy

"i love children," DeVos said, before adding, "i had one this morning on my toast"

'we can't afford $18m for special olympics' is amazing. that's a rounding error. it's half of one apache helicopter. six months of trump golfing. 20% of what the beloved military parade would cost. etc

where's the evidence that the special olympics "work," mookie? c'mon!

teacher training, smaller classrooms BLAH BLAH HEARD IT ALL BEFORE we gotta build charter schools instead, which totally work great! and allow private school kids to use public money to defray their tuition fees! oooh lordy i feel a voucher comin on!

devos is a straight-up ghoul. Americans have a moral obligation to get people like her away from the levers of power as quickly as possible. if taking Trump down over Russia isn't it then something had better fucking be

Lol we can barely convince millions of people that vaccines aren't poison