The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

in slightly better news, the FBI finally did their jobs

NEW: The FBI arrested an open neo-Nazi Trump fan for allegedly threatening to "exterminate" every Hispanic person in Miami and trying to wire someone $25,000 to kidnap a Miami woman and stuff her in a Rubbermaid plastic tub. https://t.co/pojh1AHrCZ

— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) August 20, 2019

the FBI finally did their jobs

They've been pretty on the ball lately, and I don't even get the idea that they've been sidling up to latent psychos and saying, "Hey, you know what? You should exterminate all the Jews and Mexicans. Here's a 'bomb,' ha ha ha" and then arresting them when they try it.

how recently is "lately"

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/leaked-documents-show-fbi-targeted-post-ferguson-black-identity-extremists-over-white-supremacists/

They just arrested a similarly threatening nazi dude in Memphis

uh that story is, how can I put this delicately... fucking nuts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECbtBj3VAAIoAcx.jpg:small

he just wants to wet his beak

niiiiice

GOJ raised $1 million in less than 100 days and no Republicans have said they're running in this district. https://t.co/PaEIpGSXpI

— Drew Savicki (@SenhorRaposa) August 20, 2019

Trump on Omar/Tlaib: "Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat -- I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."

— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) August 20, 2019

2020 is going to suck so much

it's funny how the GOP harps on this shit without really making any headway with Jewish Americans at all. But then they're target with this shit isn't Jews, it's evangelicals.

Bingo!

to wit In the 2018 midterms, Jews were again the most Democratic group as designated by religious identity, with 79% voting for the Democrats while 17% voted for the Republicans.

it's pretty rare that I meet any evangelicals but sometimes I feel like they would treat me like some kind of unicorn - a magical creature of totemic significance, and at the same time totally bereft of any agency or recognizable humanity

people will treat that quote like it's par for the course with Trump, but "great disloyalty" is a disgusting and blaring dog whistle and it would be nice if the media thought about it for two seconds

media is absolutely going to both sides it with Tlaib and her unstoppable reign of carnage

one thing i did not exactly need coaxing into but am eager to endorse now is all the 'authoritarian personality / psychology of fascism' stuff that was produced in the wake of WWII, there is clearly zero ideation as such going on inside his soft wet brainhole but evidently you only need a certain fortuitous combination of maladaptive drives and tics to get things going

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accusing a member of Congress of literally "hating all Jews" seems like a pretty big deal idk

Members of Congress having been calling the POTUS a racist, which is also a pretty big deal. This is just Trump punching back in his normal reflexive way.

Of course, it is fairly easy to find dozens of instances of Trump saying or doing blatantly racist things, while it is necessary to twist Tlaib's words around to create 'evidence' of rabid anti-Semitism. But tribalism will do all the heavy lifting needed to give Trump's baseless accusation credence among the Republican base, and he knows this. So, to a large extent, it works in his favor.

I cannot believe that quote even for him. Or I cannot believe this will be tolerated.

The thing is, Trump doesn't come up with this stuff himself; he gets it from guys like Jeff Ballabon and David Friedman and, I don't know, listening to Tablet's Liel Liebovitz on Gorka's white nationalist radio show. This is what right-wing Jews think about the rest of us.

— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) August 20, 2019

yeah I guess in some ways this isn't much different than him constantly bringing up the black unemployment rate as if to imply that black people are ungrateful and have no agency of their own, but he doesn't explicitly say it

but I guess there's still time

yeah we're all a bunch of race traitors "self-hating Jews"

xps

President Trump on Rep. Tlaib: "Yesterday, I notice for the first time, Tlaib with the tears. All of a sudden, she starts with tears. I don't buy it…I've seen her in a very viscous mood at campaign rallies...I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control." pic.twitter.com/4j2GgG5Ksn

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 20, 2019

Tlaib doesn't do campaign rallies

I know we do this every week but holy shit does this guy project hard

I hope he really said "viscous"

which kind of makes it sound like he got drunk and hallucinated her at one of his rallies

still waiting to see how AIPAC will spin this. hopefully a little better than RJC did

President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion. The @GOP, when rarely confronted w/anti-Semitism of elected members always acts swiftly and decisively to punish and remove. https://t.co/mEBgd84qkf

— RJC (@RJC) August 20, 2019

am I wrong here? if you watch the CSPAN video I swear he says he used to see Tlaib at his campaign rallies "before she was a congresswoman"

yes he did!

That's actually true!!! There's video!

My god! Tlaib back in 2016. pic.twitter.com/7RNRpv32TO

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 20, 2019

(lmao at the guy yelling "Get a job"...that she did!)

oh wow, thanks I didn't know that!

good on her!

that is some really violent skipping she does there

anti-Semites skip like this

lol

no puppet

Scoop: Trump called NRA chief Wayne LaPierre this afternoon to tell him universal background checks are off the table: https://t.co/GQ00JiyjUV

— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) August 20, 2019

The @GOP, when rarely confronted w/anti-Semitism of elected members

sheesh way to admit it

remember when the GOP ran actual Nazis for House seats last year

number of Dem Nazi candidates = 0

remember when the GOP ran actual Nazis for House seats last year

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 5:28 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

number of Dem Nazi candidates = 0

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, August 20, 2019 5:30 PM

Judging from my 120 minutes of sustained arguing with rightist hordes on Twitter this morning, Dems are (a) the real racists (b) baby killers (c) anti-Semites.

it appears that there are no longer good people on both sides

the only ways in which the Right "cares" about racism/anti-semitism/any bigotry are 1) to use as a "I know you are but what am I!" political cudgel and 2) it super hurts their feelings to have ppl they loathe label them something they feel has been termed into a meaningless label. Like it's so obv when they pretend to give 2 shits about "the Blacks" (looky, we gave them all jobs! hey, got off the Dem Plantation!) or any other grp they themselves have marginalized. Fucking evil fucks ugh.

what if we just hire a seven-year-old to kick him in the shins every time he tries to talk

i would kick in money for this

One might even call it... a kickstarter

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/the-us-wont-vaccinate-migrant-children-against-the-flu-at-border-camps.html
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/02/11/nits/
these are bastard moves by bastards

Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019

....The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019

I guess the bottom really is us getting nuked because damn wtf even

what even in the hell is that

This is a genius way for him to cancel everything.

literally scrambling for distracting attention-getters

Good luck USA.

"I told China we would cancel the tariffs if they gave us Taiwan, but they don't want to discuss it so I have cancelled the summit"

"I told Japan I would visit them if they sold me Mt. Fuji, but they said no, so I will not be visiting."

"I told Boris I would visit the UK if they sold me Stonehenge, but they said no, so I will stay here."

And so on.