The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

you joke but i'm sure that will absolutely be used as a legal defense if it hasn't already

I'm not convinced I was joking

the South Park defense

they all laughed at Seward and Alaska

now they're dying to get in

Tlaib gets to visit her grandma

I'd be cool with them buying Greenland and making it a white nationalist colony, but only for one winter, outside, and with no shelter or supplies. Airfare included.

No wonder he's hellbent on speeding up global warming.

Reality tv options on the battle for supremacy among white supremacists over the former Greenland might be interesting.
Don't people already live there though, so what happens to them and surely it would be cheating if existing shelter was allowed to be used.

They could rename it Whiteland.

The 50,000 or so living there already can watch the white supremacists freeze to death.

sorry I'm still back on Yang

wow lol wtf how is this real

"the President is too fat, vote for me instead" is not the political platform I find inspiring

"the President is too fat, vote for me instead" is not the political platform I find inspiring

Me either, but "Ha ha! Go get 'em, glibertarian asshole I'd never even consider voting for!" is a fun feeling, even if just for a moment.

"How fat is he!?!?!????!?"

"The president is so fat ... when he orders take out they just give him the keys to the restaurant."

"The president is so fat ... he had to get his gold-plated toilet in double-wide."

"The president is so fat ... they quickly hung a 'closed' sign on the Iowa State Fair when they heard he might be visiting. Thanks you everybody, you all have been great, I'm Andrew Yang, and I'm running for president."

good morning!

Me either, but "Ha ha! Go get 'em, glibertarian asshole I'd never even consider voting for!" is a fun feeling, even if just for a moment.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel this BUT STILL

The president is so fat...when he arrives the band plays "Hail to the Beef"

can we rename "I Love Everything" to "I Love Jay Leno"

PowerPoint! PowerPoint!

The president is so fat...when he arrives the band plays "Hail to the Beef"

ok this one is funny

Yang is an idiot, but I seriously believe that if someone treated Trump the way he treats others (making fun of his appearance, etc.) there is a 50-50 chance he cries on national television.

So I say, go for it Dems.

I can't see him crying, but I do see him getting really angry and doing a mock-Chinese voice

The president is so fat ... his tears smell like bologna.

he doesn't even have to get angry to do that though.

xpost

President Trump called the supporter he shamed for being overweight at last night's rally from aboard Air Force One and left him a voicemail, per WH official.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 16, 2019

sorry:

lmao

That voicemail was just him making piggy noises and giggling.

would looove to see some of the 1% pollers just spend their time trolling the ever loving shit out of him. too bad none of them are funny/ clever, Yang’s decent zing notwithstanding

remember when everyone made fun of North Korea for doing shit like this

.@SamSeder have you seen this from Trump's rally in PA? From this Facebook post: https://t.co/REJ39XtYWi pic.twitter.com/lYUUtDPTYC

— Chris Mielo (@chrismielo) August 16, 2019

i had a disturbingly realistic dream last night of running into Steve King at a loud busy bar and bullying him just short of the point of physically assaulting him. woke up before i got my hands around his neck.

maybe I should take a internet politics break

Is there another kind of politics?

LUNCH WILL NOT BE PROVIDED for September title.

Liz showing that "typical Democrat" side

Note the centering of Israel and what’s best for Israel. Feel free guys to stop doing this at any point. https://t.co/OPGRDI9yhe

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 15, 2019

nah, that's a lame take

‘Fattest president since Taft’: Anthony Scaramucci’s Twitter account suspended after he calls out Trump https://t.co/LJma72MThG

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 16, 2019

Trump's white supremacist bullshit is apparently fine but you can't call him fat

lmao @ this dumb website

#suspended4truth

as the mueller report made clear, you cannot suspend a sitting president on twitter

Not just Mueller but the Founding Fathers + the Constitution, possibly the Magna Carta IIRC.

Congress shall make no law subtweeting freedom of speech

just wanted to call to not apologize about calling someone else overweight

Trump told the man it was the president calling, that he wasn’t talking about him when he fat-shamed someone, and thanked him for support, per Trump aides. https://t.co/YcCz0SU3gN

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 16, 2019

People criticizing Warren for that statement are incredibly stupid people who don't understand the concept or utility of diplomacy and should be laughed at and ignored until they immolate themselves out of spite

Boycott Apartheid Israel

the end

They're looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, to justify not supporting Warren if it comes to that.

xp

No, but keep saying it

oh yeah, kissing Netanyahu's ass is a *minor* consideration, how genteel

Kissing ass, or having diplomats undertake mediated discussions?

whack Bibi

She's not kissing anyone's ass in that statement, give it a rest

[post that would get me banned]

Say it, I don't give a shit

I guess "antagonize them until they set themselves on fire" is also a strategy

In an email to constituents reported by the Tampa Bay Times, Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL, pictured above) included a series of talking points that his spokesperson told the paper were “provided by the House Republican Conference.”

If asked, “Do you believe white nationalism is driving more mass shootings recently?” the talking points falsely respond that the El Paso shooter and the man who shot Congresswoman Gaby Giffords were politically “from the left.”

“White nationalism and racism are pure evil and cannot be tolerated in any form,” the talking points included in the email said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “We also can’t excuse violence from the left such as the El Paso shooter, the recent Colorado shooters, the Congressional baseball shooter, Congresswoman Giffords’ shooter and Antifa.”

both sides, even if not both sides