The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

Please don’t post

Please

fped us all for posting

xpost I meant that gross feat were the significantly lesser infraction.

Trump’s Twitter Saturday:
- Retweets conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein
- Attacks the media
- Praises Kim Jong Un
- Attacks US-South Korea military exercises
- Attacks Bill Maher
- Accuses China of wanting a Dem in 2020
- Attacks Biden
- Attacks Scaramucci

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 11, 2019

aaaayyyyyy the mooch is still out there moochin it up

or maybe not, maybe trump was complaining about something from 2 years ago actually yeah nevermind

xpost Don't scare us with that Groening tease, it was actually kind of charming.

Mooch said El Paso trip was a catastrophe

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1756ab575e67b38224dfef9f2ab08a1c36c0a067/0_0_4500_2699/master/4500.jpg?width=2250&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2085017967f68c9b387f95676798c9ce

why

Maybe he'll tweet something negative about somebody for saying he didn't do well, but the facts are he did not do well on the trip because if the trip is being made about him and not the demonstration of compassion and love and caring and empathy for those people, then it becomes a catastrophe for him, the administration, and it's also a bad reflection on the country."
Is what he went onto say as quoted

I can’t drop many people on a bike these days but I just blew the fuckin’ doors off Mike Pence on a Nantucket bike path. Day. Made.

— Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) August 10, 2019

#resist lol

"Please don’t post pictures of corpses on this thread"

disagree thread needs more corpses. I just learned about 'extreme embalming' where corpses are dressed up in clothes and displayed in action poses. don't tempt me.

no pictures of corpses otm

XP Trump's funeral. They're gonna recreate that Trump Train t-shirt.

corpse paint yes, corpse photos no

technically not a corpse

https://i.imgur.com/U82ZF2a.jpg

i can actually hear it

No Corinthian itt

- Attacks Bill Maher
- Attacks Biden

There's your two stopped-clock moments right there

https://images.app.goo.gl/qF51wmxHkB38WLkdA

1 Corinthian
2 Corinthian
Red Corinthian
Blue Corinthian

Reuters - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration unveiled a new rule on Monday that could deny visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.
The long-anticipated rule, pushed by Trump's leading aide on immigration, Stephen Miller, takes effect Oct. 15 and would reject applicants for temporary or permanent visas for failing to meet income standards or for receiving public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.

I retired that one last November, hon. I didn't give you the keys to that old trunk.

I’m ok with pictures of Trumps corpse ITT

in this teetering economy, you take what's available and run with it

xp and not xp

The new immigration rule is freaking me out pretty hard. My wife is a green card holder who lost her job last December. Since we got our healthcare through her job we ended up qualifying for Medicaid. Being on Medicaid previously was fine for someone with her immigration status and now it’s possible for her renewal to be rejected. Pretty dang shitty tbh.

Is there no spousal sponsorship program in the US?

Prospective graduate students from outside the USA should no longer enter USA graduate programs. It is not worth the visa risks.

Yeah, this new immigration rule is incredibly fucked.

I retired that one last November, hon. I didn't give you the keys to that old trunk.

alfred, i am running on fumes. i need this. please.

also, you have used it at least 3 times since last November, albeit on non-political threads. according to the ilx charter screed, appendix 2, verse 19, that unlocks the old trunk and removes all copyright claims

goddammit ian, hoping this turns out OK

xps

i'm really sorry, ian. i have no ideas about the specifics (maybe no one does right now?). really hoping that it doesn't directly hit you and your spouse.

also, you have used it at least 3 times since last November, albeit on non-political threads. according to the ilx charter screed, appendix 2, verse 19, that unlocks the old trunk and removes all copyright claims

― Karl Malone, Monday, August 12, 2019

the clause allows non-political thread posting

Thx u Bill

ian hang in there, i'm so sorry about this totally stupid necessity to be anxious :(

Thx KM

I don’t think her green card is up for renewal for another three or four years, and who knows what the world will be like then. Still find it hard not to get anxious.

that's awful, ian

Maybe we will move to Ireland.

Hearts to you and H, ian.

my wife is also openly talking about moving us abroad

she's not on assistance and hopefully won't be anytime soon, but between this & shooters targeting Mexicans & brown kids in camps she's starting to get very nervous about staying here. like things aren't "that bad" at this moment but if he gets re-elected in 2020 it's not hard to imagine how awful things could get for non-citizens. luckily my son will probably 'pass' as white but my daughter won't and she's afraid that they're constantly being judged

ian, sent you an ilx message.

Meanwhile, the administration has turned Nixon into a tree-hugging hippie.

"Republicans have long sought to narrow the scope of the law, saying that it burdens landowners, hampers industry and hinders economic growth. They also make the case that the law is not reasonable because species are rarely removed from the list. Since the law was passed, more than 1,650 have been listed as threatened or endangered, while just 47 have been delisted because their populations rebounded."

gee, it almost sounds like there might be some sort of major, systemic "thing" happening to our entire world. definitely not anything caused by humans, i'm not saying that, but definitely some big nature thing that affects all these species. someone should definitely look into that. it's most likely just normal nature cycles and nothing to worry about, though

i just want everyone to follow the law

did you all hear about some sort of mass extinction event that we're all living through? word on the street is that it's the 6th one in earth's history. thing is, just thinking about it kind of hampers industry and hinders economic growth. i can't be bothered to consider earth's natural resources when i'm busy making sure that economic growth continues to grow exponentially for the rest of recorded human history.

i think the plan is to stop recording human history in about 3 weeks

still seeing the FB "let's settle for Biden, deal with climate change in '24" threads; very sensible

one thing that annoys me about the climate change conversation is that global warming is only a small fraction of the damage our species has been doing to this planet over the past couple of centuries

casinos will save us

Owners of one of Illinois’ largest video gambling companies are behind efforts to influence city politics, expand gambling and build a casino near land they control. https://t.co/RfKgAIEIBh

— ProPublica (@propublica) August 8, 2019