The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

i don't get to police, but i sure get to judge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOy4WtAc4c

oh yeah, that guy.

i know a Democrat who yells JILL STEIN JILL STEIN for four (or 12) years. Not very good at math or logic.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/trump-baby-photo-el-paso-shooting.html
worth the read

https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/trump-cracks-jokes-about-rent-control-kamikaze-pilots-at-hamptons-fundraiser/

And of his tough stance on trade tariffs and US military aid, Trump told a story of going as a boy to collect rent checks with his father, adding, “It was easier to get a billion dollars from South Korea than to get $114.13 from a rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, and believe me, those 13 cents were very important.”

yeah wrt "no corpse photos" I would delight in this one exception

Here's acting USCIS director Ken Cuccinelli saying on NPR this morning that the Statue of Liberty plaque should be changed to read, "give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge." pic.twitter.com/q8OoNn3k6r

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2019

This is a fucking nightmare

by 'this' you surely mean, all, this whole, reality here now yes

Don Jr. actually made...a good tweet !??

Hey @ChrisCuomo, take it from me, “Fredo” isn’t the N word for Italians, it just means you’re the dumb brother. 😉 https://t.co/sgg6yF7UDO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 13, 2019

he'd know

Was gonna say, “take it from me” feels like a self-own

I thought Eric was the dumb brother.

how can you tell the difference

Eric definitely *looks* like the dumb one but Don Jr. is a lot more online and therefore has had many more chances to expose his idiocy to the world

if only his father were online more often to expose his own idiocy

tbh, I got that from SNL.

that's where we got the dad too

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/13/politics/central-casting-trump-is-talking-more-than-ever-about-mens-looks/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

Nice work, CNN. All along I knew gay panic was the key to bringing down Trump

xxp I love The Onion's series about Don Jr and Eric - https://politics.theonion.com/tag/trump-boys

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said on Tuesday that the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants to the United States was referring to “people coming from Europe.”

“Well of course that poem referred back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies,” Cuccinelli said of the inscription on the statue during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. “Where people were considered wretched if they weren’t in the right class.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/457344-cuccinelli-statue-of-liberty-poem-refers-to-people-from-europe

I guess this chooch missed the line about welcoming "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore"

good morning!

And forgot "From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome."

well Ken Cuccinelli is a piece of shit birther and homophobe so not surprised by any of the crap that he spews

I just can’t believe the good people of...wait, who elected him again?

this guy

Trump's business model was predatory: get rich by deceiving customers, cheating suppliers. His model of the world economy is also predatory: trade is bad, there must be a loser for every winner. You might say Trump was our first Marxist president. And Marxism is now failing again

— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 14, 2019

Here's acting USCIS director Ken Cuccinelli saying on NPR this morning that the Statue of Liberty plaque should be changed to read...

this is not what he said

david frum is a thoughtful conservative that deserves to be taken very seriously

that is a take of absolutely phenomenal stupidity even by the usual frum standards

Is he talking about like Harpo Marxism or

Richard Marxism

that's true, Cuccinelli said it says the opposite of what it says

U.S. Rep. Steve King: If not for rape and incest, 'would there be any population left?' https://t.co/TVBZQjYsOb via @DMRegister

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 14, 2019

The Kiron Republican was discussing his defense of not allowing exceptions for rape and incest in the anti-abortion legislation he tried to pass in Congress. Republican leadership had prevented bills he sponsored on banning abortions from advancing through the House, despite GOP support for the measures, King said.

Just because a conception happened in bad circumstances doesn't mean the result isn't a person, King, who is Catholic, argued.

"It's not the baby's fault for the sin of the father, or of the mother," he said.

"especially the sins of the mother", King added

the King family gatherings must be a hoot

Ah yes, rape and incest, the great drivers of humanity.

the great drivers of pickup trucks

A question I find myself asking with increasing frequency: does this person know he's like an actual, legitimate monster?

ba·by
/ˈbābē/
noun
1.
a very young child, especially one newly or recently born. Or y'know, even if it hasn't yet been born.

It may not be politically correct, but I don’t believe that babies up to 2 years in age should be taken away and murdered because of the sins of their parents (especially those of the mother)

And I’m not going to let AOC and other people born in other countries force our white patriotic women of the homeland destroy our future

If western (white) civilization is so far superior then Steve King would've already learned how to fuck himself and carry his own fetuses.

"anti-choice but with these exceptions" people are worse than complete zealots IMO

So I know this will be u popular but part of what King says is compelling intellectually. What percentage of the population now does exist only because of rape and incest? Likely most it of you go back far enough. That said instill support abortion up to the age of 40.

king is way older than 40

another compelling intellectual thought while listening to king - gee i wonder if could multiply steve king's face so i could beat the shit out of more than one version of it, assuming his face could not attack me back or try to bite me or struggle much, and i could hurt his face with a single forceful blow, then how many steve king faces would be the optimum number, balancing the satisfaction of beating the shit out of each individual face vs the fatigue from the physical force it takes to deliver a meaningful blow to a face, let alone multiple faces in a short period of time.

so probably 5 steve king faces

i've beaten up a lot of people

I would imagine so.

My own fantastical imaginings lean more toward sealing US Rep. Steve King in an airtight Lucite box and sinking it to the ocean floor amid a ring of video cameras on tripods. We can collectively discuss whether this should be a Pay-Per-View event or a free webstream.

That sounds like an experience best suited for google Cardboard