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

Need someone to march him into the recruitment office so he doesn't just go buy a camouflage shirt at Target and paint 'ARMEE' on it.

getting mowed down by the iranian revolutionary guard might be the only way jacob wohl will face any semblance of justice, it seems

tbf there's always fragging

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

yeah like i’m gonna place any faith in the us military doing the right thing in 2019 xp

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/border-funding-immigration.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Her retreat came after Vice President Mike Pence gave Ms. Pelosi private assurances that the administration would voluntarily abide by some of the restrictions and rules that she had sought, including notifying lawmakers within 24 hours after the death of a migrant child in government custody, and placing a 90-day limit on children spending time in temporary intake facilities, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

real fucking bleak day

absolutely disgusting

https://i.imgur.com/L6gMp9Y.jpg

Vice President Mike Pence gave Ms. Pelosi private assurances

Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi still live in a world where such assurances mean something. Except that is now an imaginary world, because Pence has no power to uphold those assurances and Trump dgaf.

I don’t think Pence lives in that world.

maybe they can compromise and let everyone know about dead migrant children within 7-14 days instead

I just read and reread that sentence and I'm like...I'm an unsavvy private citizen, and I goddamn well know that a private assurance from Mike Pence isn't worth the spittle generated amidst its utterance. And this is the great strategizing force upon which the dems have come to depend. And so, yeah, we might just be fucked.

Thought this T-shirt (recently featured on Jimmy Kimmel's show, but rest assured it's a very real thing) deserved memorialization.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0824/6367/products/T_SHIRT_FRONT_5970a05c-60ab-4b9a-b729-f8fb3ee26e0a_grande.png?v=1561544808

Quite literally about to go off the rails?

perpetually.

saw a qan0n bumper sticker in the air force only parking lot today things are great

a little voice inside my head said don't look back you can never look back

My wife hates it when I say this aloud, so now I say it silently to myself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

“We didn’t even bother to negotiate… we’re immediately going to just saying yes to what got passed out of the Senate,” says Rep. @AOC on Pelosi’s decision to pass the Senate border funding bill.
“We are a House majority and we need to act like it.” https://t.co/kBegQJcVo4 pic.twitter.com/dW8Fkdoxjc

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 27, 2019

are Shakey and Alfred still on board with Nance? Between this and "He wants us to impeach him"?

The liberal Supreme Court Justices should have hid at an armed safe-house instead of taking that gerrymandering vote.

Or simply recuse themselves from any future cases like this

It was all a joke!

Prompted by a reporter's question, Trump tells Putin: "Don’t meddle in the election, please."

Putin laughed after hearing the translation. And the U.S. president shook his head and smiled. https://t.co/o6wgVIgT19 pic.twitter.com/5xLZuRbzQQ

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) June 28, 2019

They're such a cute couple.

in unrelated news, how are america's efforts in venezuela going

Trump got bored.

'differently focused'

'otherly stupid'

So "Don't meddle in the election, please" is July's title, right?

In other news:

Peter Baker asks Trump if he agrees with Putin about demise of "Western-style liberalism." Trump then criticizes LA and SF run which are "sad to look at" because they are run by "liberal people" ... which was not the question.

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 29, 2019

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-Putin-Western-liberalism-San-Francisco-G20-14060892.php

"At the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, US President Donald Trump was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Western-style liberalism was becoming "obsolete."

By "Western-style liberalism," Putin was referring to the political ideology common in Western countries that emphasizes democracy, market economies, and individual liberty.

When asked about Putin's comments by a reporter, Trump appeared to think Putin was referring to liberals on the West Coast of the United States.

"If you look at what's happening in Los Angeles...San Francisco...(cities) run by a group of liberal people," Trump said."

....

:When asked specifically about Biden's past stances on busing, Trump appeared to think the controversy was around the mode of transportation itself, and not school desegregation.

"It has been something that they've done for a long period of time," Trump said. "There aren't that many ways of getting people to schools."

the worst part about trying to reason with an inanimate object is when they win the 2016 election by negative 2 points

wow that busing response is better than any parody

But ask him how moving the time slot for The Apprentice to a later hour might have changed its Nielsen ratings and ad revenue, because its demographics skewed toward groups like old people and school kids who went to bed early, and he would have come up with several suggestions about tweaking the format to appeal more to 34-45 year olds, and could explain why shifting to a different night of the week might reduce the ratings losses.

I hate that this is the timeline I wound up in. I just hate it.

Trump giving speech from Lincoln Memorial steps before fireworks and military flyovers was bad enough, but now of course they’re creating special ticketed only access area for his pals there. I had gone to DC fireworks the last few years, but gonna skip this. Code Pink Group is trying to get permission to fly baby T balloon. I doubt they’ll get approval

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-plans-ticketed-access-area-for-vips-friends-and-family-at-july-4-celebration/2019/06/28/005fd56a-99a4-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html

Trump appeared to think

bullshit

gah, I wish the DC 4th fireworks were not awesome so that people would just stay home, but there will be crowds and there will be crowing.

maybe he'll lose an eye or a finger

Maybe somebody already linked this?

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/29/concentration-camps-border-detention/

good afternoon!

so Yam met Kim at the NK border and thanked him for not making him "look bad"

the new press secy got bruised in a security kerfuffle

Amazing video of @IvankaTrump trying to butt in to actual world leaders’ conversation and their unconcealable irritation. pic.twitter.com/WuZfWpQpgA

— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) June 30, 2019

there is one alternate universe out of billions where ivanka is a really cool and nice person despite her upbringing, and i feel sorry for her because she's placed in these insane situations where she has be around political leaders and pretend like she belongs. must be excruciating for her, in that alternative universe. in this one, though, she fakes it til she makes it and later is like 'i architected the fuck out of that greet and meet, j kush'

i guess she'll just have to settle for this universe, where she's smoking hot and her dad is the president :(

Time4FiftyOne

esby's not so much out-of-bounds as just annoying and inane. it would be like killing a flea.

annoying and inane

Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".

go screw, you dusty farmer's almanac

Let he who is without sin

/annoying and inane/

Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".

tbh yes they probably are just tolerating her in that video, and she does look awkward but this feels a lot like when we try to pretend Trump is "obviously miserable" in a picture where really he's just winding up for a sneeze or something.