no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

this is the water and this is the well

trump is the most lynchian president

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We've met before, haven't we?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/03/so-much-land-under-so-much-water-extreme-flooding-is-drowning-parts-of-the-midwest

this seems like some seriously bad shit and quite underexposed in the news, from this end at least.

Recent deaths of multiple ICE detainees were preventable, according to internal agency documents I obtained for @tytinvestigates.

In one memo, an ICE official warns Acting Director Albence their health services department is “severely dysfunctional”https://t.co/OnUrFgeLiL pic.twitter.com/Z1FrQAQSNN

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 3, 2019

New: The House Judiciary Committee will continue hearings focused on the alleged crimes and misconduct laid out in the Mueller's report.

The next hearing will feature former White House Counsel John Dean as well as ex-U.S. Attorneys and legal experts. https://t.co/tJnD6zhOyl

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 3, 2019

a blast from the past

the clips from this kushner interview are just...I don't even know anymore

https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-palestinians-trust-peace-plan-2824a0fb-305a-4835-9a46-51f8611fe421.html

for once, Jonathan Swan earned his paycheck.

his incredulity is refreshing

https://i.imgur.com/xNQotPY.jpg

Meanwhile, the effort to retrofit Trumpism with conservative legitimacy churns onward: https://nationalconservatism.org/?fbclid=IwAR3r_8T3XyFkha3NR9GdtAanT9FlwddV-H2nG5tVA8-1YKgyTFkiEyFUBmY

Is the new American and British nationalism a hostile usurper that has arrived on the scene to displace political conservatism? Or is nationalism an essential, if neglected, part of the Anglo-American conservative tradition at its best?

You'll never guess which one they pick ...

calzino thanks for that midwest flood link, yes it is terrifying and underreported

I watched the Kushner episode, and I have to ask, is axios an elaborate joke? it seems like a parody of the NEW MEDIA company who dares to BE DIFFERENT by taking you BEHIND THE SCENES (accomplishing the same thing that anchor banter does)

is axios an elaborate joke?

You wish.

Check out its founders.

the joke is coming from inside the beltway

china's ministry of culture and tourism otm

BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists traveling to the United States.

Noting the frequent occurrence of shootings, robberies and theft in the United States recently, the ministry warned Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks of traveling there.

Chinese tourists are urged to learn about the information about the public security situation and related laws and regulations of tourist destinations, to raise safety awareness and step up precautions to stay safe.

The travel alert is valid until Dec. 31, 2019.

Fair comment surely?

Should have made it valid until Jan. 20, 2021

more of a sick burn than anythng else

I mean you're not likley to get shot here unless you're doing something really weird like sitting in a classroom or being at your job

This plan to bring John Dean and friends in to testify about the Mueller report seems extremely stupid to me. Is there any point to this at all?

Is there any point to any of it?

anyone else ready for really vigorous, really shitty rallies chanting “HIGH CRIMES! MISDEMEANORS! HIGH CRIMES! MISDEMEANORS!” not for any candidacy, but like, for fun and nancy. and with no impeachment proceedings resulting. just let the pressure rise.

not sure of best venue yet

is axios an elaborate joke?

The handheld cameras on that kushner interview were an elaborate joke, holy shit. Like watching the blair witch project, starring an empty vessel

the GOP should subpoena G. Gordon Liddy and we can get to the bottom of this Watergate hoax

Good morning!

is axios an elaborate joke?

Mike Allen and a guy I think was Jim VandeHei sat next to me at a cocktail bar over here. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I tried to make light conversation with Mike Allen. He noticed me but deliberately ignored me. Then I saw all the Axios stickers on his macbook and did some googling, found out it was him.

Kind of a dick.

hi American thread 👋🏻 the Queen secretly owning Trump discourse is like shit Christmas

Speculating on whether or not famous/powerful people are subtly owning Trump in their interactions with him is QAnon for liberals https://t.co/SKtcuComS2

— Paul Blest (@pblest) June 4, 2019

This is making the queen seem way more favourable than the reptile she really is tbh :-/

anyone looks good next to a creepy psychopath

No way to talk about the heir to the throne.

lol

WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.

Mr. Trump’s latest threat — 5 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico, rising to as high as 25 percent until the Mexican government stems the flow of migrants — has riled Republican senators who fear its impact on the economy and their home states. They emerged from a closed-door lunch in the Capitol angered by the briefing they received from a deputy White House counsel, Patrick F. Philbin, and Assistant Attorney General Steven A. Engel on the legal basis for imposing new tariffs by declaring a national emergency.

“I want you to take a message back” to the White House, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, told the attorneys, according to people familiar with the meeting. “You didn’t hear a single yes” from the Republican conference. He called the proposed tariffs a $30 billion tax hike on Texans.

Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said he warned the lawyers that the Senate could muster an overwhelming majority to beat back the tariffs, even if Mr. Trump were to veto a resolution disapproving them. Republicans may be broadly supportive of Mr. Trump’s push to build a wall and secure the border, he said, but they are almost uniformly opposed to the imposition of tariffs on Mexico.

“The White House should be concerned about what that vote would result in, because Republicans really don’t like taxing American consumers and businesses,” Mr. Johnson said.

Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, fretted, “We’re holding a gun to our own heads.”

just wait til they figure out that the China tariffs are ALSO paid for by american people consumers

They also apposed the national emergency five months ago -- remember that bill? Then they caved. Veremos.

spending this wild tuesday night checking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director

am i the only one who never realized that pat buchanan was communicators director for reagan from 1985-87?

also, from april 1987 to july 2017, there was never a gap between the tenures of communications directors - one would start the day the other finished. trump has had several multi-week gaps already: 16 days between the mooch and hope hicks, almost three months between hicks and bill shine, and now almost 3 months since bill shine left.

i'm not expert, but it seems like it would be important to have a communications director.

i'm not an expert!

Twitter makes that unnecessary.

watch this to die instantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEy7LRpuv9A

How far does Piers manage to get his tongue up Donnie's b-hole?

i don't know, i didn't watch because i didn't want to die instantly

the inhuman centipede

lol:

We did it! https://t.co/rx6ZKGyVBD

— Guy Endore-Kaiser (@GuyEndoreKaiser) June 5, 2019

hahahaa

the very definition of an open goal from ivanka there

I would bet a substantial sum of money that the significance of what she wrote is completely lost on her.

I thought "Jared" would be sound, solid entertainment in January 2017.

“First of all, I didn’t know anything about it, but I’m not even sure it happened,” Trump told Piers Morgan on “Good Morning Britain.” “I hear it’s fake news. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But again, I don’t talk about John McCain unless someone asks me about it.”

oh so it didn't really happen .

Destined for Bartlett's Quotes. Trump: “China, India, Russia, many other nations, they have not very good air, not very good water, and the sense of pollution. If you go to certain cities, you can’t even breathe, and now that air is going up. They don’t do the responsibility.”

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 5, 2019

reading that in the voice of prime Jerry Lewis

Reading that as if it were the final gaseous emissions from a dying horse's suppurating asshole.

pollution: it’s real and bad in other countries but fine in the usa