The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

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

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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.

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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

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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

Gus Bilirakis is the grandson of Greek immigrants.

whew, thought he was a harkonnen for a second

He’s trying to spin the El Paso shooter as a leftist?

disingenuousness aside, has "antifa" been responsible for a single shooting?

To be fair though, the shooter did take a much harder line on Israel than certain notorious liberals!

no

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“There’s a discussion in Greenland about the cost of independence and how to pay for that,” said Rasmus Kjaergaard Rasmussen, an expert on Greenland and Arctic affairs at Roskilde University in Denmark. “Either they sell a lot fish, find oil in the Arctic region, find uranium or other minerals and tax them. Or they find a new Denmark, a new sponsor to cover the $740 million. That could be the United States.”

The 51st state?

He’s trying to spin the El Paso shooter as a leftist?

― akm, Friday, August 16, 2019 8:29 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I saw a mighty effort to spin the Dayton shooter as one, but when lol nothing matters anymore who cares which one is which

Many people are saying they were both heavily far left, and also the same about the Oklahoma City bomber

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Love that horseshoe theory

He’s actually getting worse

Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2019

TBH I am pretty disappointed in Tlaib for that.

I can’t find what the speech restrictions she would have been placed under were, but it seems reasonable that she might refuse if they were exclusive to her & no other visiting politicians

He’s actually getting worse

https://giphy.com/gifs/trump-disability-mocks-lF5li31f8WdKo

Idk how you can be disappointed in Tlaib for her reaction when the nation of Israel was asking a woman of color in a position of political power to be a Good Girl and not make waves

agreed

I'd say Israel's case as a "tolerant democracy" (per E Warren) isn't even worth laughing at.

my apologies - i somehow missed the part about the restrictions on her speech israel was demanding.

heard audio clip of Tlaib weeping about her decision

The scene at Steve King’s town hall today in Grundy Center, Iowa. Photo by Brenna Norman pic.twitter.com/PEtHkmmaFN

— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) August 17, 2019

am i the only one who didn't know (until NOW) that stephen miller got his start in washington in 2007 as the press secretary for michele bachmann, then in her first term?

I didn’t know that but I know he tried to get David Horowitz to speak at his high school and then at his university

That is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard