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

Official White House graphic:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9CIXhAWkAAhWQb.jpg

who is the head of the Joint Chiefs right now? anyone we've heard of?

if he loses, we have to put up with him calling into Fox & Friends for an hour every morning - and the press covering it like it matters - for the next 20 years, or until solar flares melt all our satellites and there's no more TV.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, June 14, 2019 10:24 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark

oh shit i hadn't thought about this

Yeah, you know that thing where ex-presidents kinda fade away from public life and you don't really hear a whole lot from them once they're out of office? Get ready for that to be a thing of the past.

am sure Pres Ivanka will find a role for him in her 2040 admin

In this scenario, the USA plays the Ancient Mariner and Trump plays the role of dead albatross hung around the USA's neck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9CIXhAWkAAhWQb.jpg

wtf. does trump have a sense of humor about himself now?

is this seriously a white house graphic?

yeah. trump retweeted it from the whitehouse twitter page.

pic.twitter.com/c40BQpZFtW

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 14, 2019

It likes like a Nascar rally car

Why is the president fucking a flag?

its a metaphor

ha like Trump is able to grasp why everyone else thinks that image is funny/awful

all he cares about is that it is effective because it centers all the attention on himself

the flag likes it

when you're a star they let you do it

he's Bidening Old Glory

Ragging Anoe

Lots of people sharing this, no idea who this person is, she seems a little too close to resistance grifter types so I’m a little wary of sharing it as gospel truth, but:

IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT TRUMP IS DOING AT THE BORDER, you need to read and share this thread. @jacobsoboroff @JuliaEAinsley please read this.

I have just gotten off the phone with a friend who is a legal volunteer in Border Patrol facilities.

Don't look away.

1/

— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) June 13, 2019

Shouldn’t there be reporters all over the border right now?

she seems a little too close to resistance grifter types

yeah. whatever facts she's presenting there are dragged down by her vibe, which practically shouts 'propaganda'.

I know the topic has moved on, but commercial ships are equipped with radar and sonar devices, the EXACT purpose of which is to detect things in the dark.

Interesting. But only patriotic proud American commercial ships, right?!

I really couldn't give a fuck if Iran threw shitty bombs at a NON US tanker. although I guess now the word is they were trying to hit a US drone which I guess is...provacative, but also, who gives a fuck? What if Iran had drones flying off the East Coast? Wouldn't we shoot them down?

I need thousands of American 23 yr olds to protect my freedom of speech by murdering Iranian civilians because a Japanese oil tanker got attacked 8000 miles from America.

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 14, 2019

last two posts otm

Any nation has the recognized right to shoot down hostile aircraft overflying its airspace, including within its 12 nm territorial waters. I have no doubt that US drones have in the past overflown Iranian territory.

Would the average US citizen recognize that Iran has a right to defend its sovereign territory? As my parents' generation used to say, "eh, go tell it to the marines". That's just how we empires roll.

Blockbuster story buried in this NYT report.

Pentagon, intelligence officials fear they cannot trust Trump enough to brief him fully on new US cyber operation against Russia for fear he will "countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials" as he did before with Russians. pic.twitter.com/BgSF3zi8nm

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 15, 2019

well yeah

gotta loop that motherfucker out

I hope whoever assembles the PDBs has a post-Trump memoir coming up. Even redacted, these are among the most embarrassing stories I've read about Trump's actual functioning in a presidential role. The PDB reduced to two pages of bullet points with large colorful maps, insertions of the phrase "President Trump" as often as possible to maintain attention, intelligence withheld from CinC for fear of leaks to other powers.

Happy Father's Day!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48656431
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, named after US President Donald Trump.
At a naming ceremony on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu said Trump Heights honoured Mr Trump for his decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the territory.

THE DUMBEST TIMELINE

Trump to ABC: "I’m not a breakfast guy at all, fortunately. I like the lunches but the dinners is what I really like."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 17, 2019

the fact that there is a democratic debate in mere weeks was kind of shocking to me, that not that it's certain a dem will win, but that both time and the system churn on and there will come a day when life proceeds without this man as our leader. barring some nuclear conflagration but that could happen with or without him anyway

'the dinners is what I really like' for July Title.

"I run the country. I like mustard on my biscuit, hrm."

poor Mick Mulvaney

Pres. Trump says he “might” turn over his “financial statement” to Congress.

“I hope they get it, because it’s a fantastic financial statement,” he tells @GStephanopoulos in the Oval Office. https://t.co/8q0FwFD9qt pic.twitter.com/fw1tIc0vxO

— ABC News (@ABC) June 17, 2019

Nice to see the president adhering to the historical sense of "fantastic" as "having the nature of fantasy"

good morning!

I don't understand why news organizations release transcripts with "(inaudible)" all over them. THAT'S YOUR FUCKING JOB. IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR WHAT HE SAID, LISTEN TO IT AGAIN. That's what I have to do when I'm transcribing my own interviews - the motherfucker mumbles or swallows his words, and you go back and listen again until you figure it out.

The transcript in question.

TBF, there's a degree of continuity in most human speech which allows us to infer as to the identity of an indistinct word based on the context of the larger utterance. This is a more difficult undertaking when the utterance in question is the spoken equivalent of someone cramming a children's dictionary into a woodchipper.

I know armchair psychoanalyzing Trump is no fun anymore, but him tweeting this is pretty funny: "Happy Father’s Day to all, including my worst and most vicious critics"

less funny was his offhand suggestion that maybe people wouldn't want him to leave after the end of his second term.

xpost AKA RIP Fred Trump. Sad!

STEPHANOPOULOS: This was-- you feel like this is your (inaudible)?

TRUMP: Yeah, I-- I do. I feel it's really-- really a great part of the country for us. Yeah.

STEPHANOPOULOS: This was the first state you ever (inaudible).

If only ABC had some way of determining what their own employee was saying