At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

Probably some combination of 'I wouldn't give him the pleasure' / 'I am not going to stand here and wait to be slapped' / 'I'll show the world I have more dignity than that'.

this...seems...good?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/10/20687507/triump-kidney-disease-transplant

(speaking as someone who has been on and off the liver transplant list for the past several years).

Me on the flagbotherers and 45 versus my hometown:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-pledge-of-allegiance-minnesota-twitter-a8999491.html

thank god . . . an internet petition

As a prosecutor Acosta was supposed to vindicate young trafficking victims; instead he violated their trust and brushed their evidence aside to protect their abuser. Acosta’s Epstein coverup is unconscionable and indefensible. He MUST resign. #AcostaResign https://t.co/Uboc7pV7jG

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) July 10, 2019

she's still acting like the minority leader

How so? Once a cabinet secretary has been confirmed, the congress can't force a resignation. What do you suggest she do differently?

this...seems...good?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/10/20687507/triump-kidney-disease-transplant

(speaking as someone who has been on and off the liver transplant list for the past several years).

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:46 PM (fifty-six minutes ago)

i think so but idk

TRUMP: "You've worked so hard on the kidney. Very special -- the kidney has a very special place in the heart. It's an incredible thing." pic.twitter.com/JLM3uCsO5u

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2019

So reading between the lines he was told that he's suffering from heart failure and subsequently overheard someone talking about kidney transplants and the scrambled wiring in his brain led him first to believe that he needed to have a new kidney implanted into his heart and then to issue an executive order to speed up the process.

That's probably only like 1/10 more dumb than whatever actually motivated this turn of events.

whatever it was, glad it's happening

mike pence is contagious

Mississippi Politician Blocks Female Reporter From Campaign Trip

Robert Foster, a state representative, invoked the “Billy Graham rule” of not spending time alone with women other than one’s wife. He said photos could be used to “insinuate an extramarital affair.”

it's all that #metoo stuff, right boys? i can't even talk to a woman any more, i'm scared of going to jail!!

the kidney has a very special place in the heart

GOT to be the August thread title, even 21 days out

lmao I assumed that was a fake quote

Maybe for uk pol thread, but if monsieur ambassadeur is so pissed off with boris johnson, why not stay in post a couple more weeks and make johnson sack him?

― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 11 July 2019 3:17 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

By going now, with a friendly foreign secretary and PM he can make sure of his full pension and whatever gongs are coming his way. Wait till DePfeffel gets in and who the hell knows, he probably gets delivered trussed up to the rose garden.

By going this way he’s probably ensured that Teresa ennobled him on the way put the door.

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

acosta is the only latino on the trump cabinet, right?

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

To me he looks like a balding Ted Cruz.

i guess that's what happens when you have to tweet but you're not allowed to say anything that resembles what actually happened

I have no spine and I must tweet.

lol

I'm not exactly following this Acosta stuff but having just seen a pic of him he looks like if Eliot Spitzer had had to relive his scandals tenfold.

To me he looks like a balding Ted Cruz.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019

my loudmouth newly #woke lib friend at Starbucks shared his truest remark in three years' acquaintance: "He looks like Kuato from Total Recall.

this photo with his daughters has become a (shining) meme

gah!

That's "Simpsons when it was good" made flesh.

strong candidate for SANTORUM.JPG

Acosta wife & daughters (and Pence) appear to be escapees from Wisconsin Death Trip.

Needs more cuttyhorse

everyone in that photo has keebler ears

everyone in that photo is struggling to repress a soul-shredding scream

Needs more cuttyhorse

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed),

Needs more Cutty Sark.

lmao that every Republican alive has to pretend this man's brain hasn't rotted through his skull

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019

what the

just fucking exp*re already

Once I realized that he's been referring to the kind of stable genius that solves simple math problems by stamping its hoof, I had to admit that the description was apropos.

that kind of genius lives in one, for sure

worth posting all of that

A big subject today at the White House Social Media Summit will be the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies. We will not let them get away with it much longer. The Fake News Media will also be there, but for a limited period..

....The Fake News is not as important, or as powerful, as Social Media. They have lost tremendous credibility since that day in November, 2016, that I came down the escalator with the person who was to become your future First Lady. When I ultimately leave office in six......

....years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding), they will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public. That’s why they will all be Endorsing me at some point, one way or the other. Could you imagine having Sleepy Joe Biden, or @AlfredENeuman99,..

...or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

@AlfredENeuman99 has 760 followers. here is his twitter bio:

Retired teacher and soccer coach. Season ticket holder of the Chicago Cubs. Luther College, Northern Illinois U, UMiami. Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Chelsea.

he lives in Florida

So he famously went down an escalator in 2016 too?

pardon me for saying so but the fact that the President of the United States has a tendency to tag random people on Twitter is hilarious to me

'the person who was to become your future First Lady' is a very normal-brain thing to post, good work mr presidetn

no he announced his candidacy the same month he won the election. that's how it happened. xpost

That’s almost as incoherent as the message my mom just sent me about the article I wrote about St. Louis Park.

Fucksake, make it make sense....

wow that's inspiring

xp

Coward

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452579-paul-ryan-says-he-saw-retirement-as-an-escape-hatch-from-trump-book

i can't believe he has enough brain cells to breathe. honestly.

On one occasion, Alberta reports Trump finally gave in to signing a 2018 spending bill that didn't include border wall funding only after Ryan agreed to give him time to build suspense on Twitter.

lol

tfw when you lack the moral courage to stand up to a brain-damaged septuagenarian in order to enact your plan to crush the poor

one great thing about this social media summit is that the people who weren't invited are throwing tantrums about it

this includes ben garrison, who was DISINVITED after one of his old cartoons was held up as anti-semitic. he has already promised/threatened to draw about it

like they're all such fucking babies and it becomes more apparent every day

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/white-house-social-media-bias-talks-1576717

The invited guests include far-right activist Ali Alexander, who infamously claimed last month that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who has Indian and Jamaican heritage, is "not an American Black" in a tweet shared by Donald Trump Jr., as well as YourVoice America host Bill Mitchell, who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory alleging that Trump is waging a secret war against pedophiles and "deep state" saboteurs. Another expected attendee is James O'Keefe, whose undercover sting outfit Project Veritas has released what critics say are selectively edited videos depicting organizations ranging from Google to Planned Parenthood as biased and corrupt.

Pro-Trump political cartoonist Ben Garrison was also among those slated to attend, but the White House rescinded his invitation, POLITICO Playbook reported Wednesday, amid complaints that his work has promoted anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish financiers controlling world events.