The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

the politically correct Automobile Companies

I can't

VW= Very Woke

Yeah, this morning's NYT story about the auto companies seeing the financial sense in limiting fuel emissions was an eye-opener.

It's like he just walks around all day gumming a mouthful of magnetic poetry and everyone gathers around whatever random words happen to be suspended in the pendulous drool string hanging from his chin in a particular moment and says, hmm yes, very intersting, this is definitely the coherent utterance of a sentient creature, let us regard it as such.

My dog knocked over a box of Alpha Bits one time, it was the most profound soliloquy I ever encountered.

fucking bizarro world. I want off!

"Distractions" or not, every time we've hit maximum "Veep" (or "Onion") we go even further. It boggles the mind. It's like a humanoid Magic Eye run amuck.

My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Very little impact on the environment! Foolish executives!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2019

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Aug 21, 2019 08:56:12 AM
....WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?

Sir this is an Arby's

My proposal to the politically correct Planet Earth would make all sweet treats 3000% more delicious, while at the same time eradicating their impact on the waistline. Also ponies should be able to talk. Foolish nature!

I think the PC fast food industry should cut the cows and breed animals that will birth fully cooked Big Macs.

WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected, even as President Trump muses about more tax cuts and other ideas that would add to government debt.

The deficit will reach $960 billion for the 2019 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office said in updated forecasts released on Wednesday. Previously, it had projected an $896 billion deficit for 2019 and $892 billion for 2020. Those numbers would be even higher, if not for lower-than-expected interest rates, which are reducing the cost of servicing the national debt.

*checks watch*

looks like it's almost time for republicans to suddenly get extremely concerned about the deficit. i think it will be about...November 4, 2020, depending on the results of the election.

the only way to address the deficit is to cut social security and medicare, of course. it's literally the only way to address a gap between tax revenue and spending.

@AndrewFeinberg
JUST NOW: I asked
@realDonaldTrump
who American Jews are being disloyal to by voting for Democrats, he said they’re being “disloyal to Israel.”

@atrupar

Beyond parody -- Trump says his solution to the epidemic of veteran suicides is some new "stimulant" produced by Johnson & Johnson that he's instructed the government to buy in large quantities

wtf is happening

it's like just someone get this rich loudmouth farting kid out of the room

Out of his fucking gourd geez

the auto companies seeing the financial sense in limiting fuel emissions

drowned ppl don't buy vehicles

Here's the clip. Speaking about his trade war with China, Trump looks to the heavens and says, "I am the Chosen One." pic.twitter.com/mKWA9g7wzQ

— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 21, 2019

trump just said the prime minister of denmark was "nasty", etc etc. god he is pathetic. last night he was trying to spin it (his own fuckup, he had made minutes before, by ragequitting the denmark trip via twitter) like the trip was just delayed for other reasons and it had nothing to do with greenland. now 12 hours later it's pretty clear that's exactly what it was about. god what a fucking dumb loser

And tried to frame it a diss to the American people as well

ok that clip legitimately sent a chill through my spine

wait, is god listening to people now?

god, this guy is a dumb fucking loser, you should make doing something about it your first action in 2000+ years

for a good laugh just imagine Obama looking to the sky and saying that

There is literally nothing Donald Trump could say, aside from an expression of genuine empathy and care for other human beings, that would surprise me at this point. Nothing.

In a 180 from yesterday, Trump says he is no longer interested in tax cuts or lowering capital gains taxes. https://t.co/wGNLm74KlT

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) August 21, 2019

I am still in the middle of watching The Family doc on netflix. But yes, all these fucking assholes are the Chosen Ones. It's their thing to do and say all the crazy shit they want.

On the plus side, it seems like the contents of his brainpan are finally nearing complete putrefaction.

*adjusts the election models to give trump a slightly better chance*

The president's retweetees form quite a pantheon: Katie Hopkins, Wayne Allyn Root, various Q-ers. It may be too much to ask for William F. Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman, and Irving Kristol. But we can do better, can't we?

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) August 21, 2019

yeah i'd say what's unique about the OG is not the manias he has but that he lets them out unchecked

xxp

It may be too much to ask for William F. Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman, and Irving Kristol. But we can do better, can't we?

pfffffffffft

nordlinger has learned absolutely nothing. i know, shocking

oh noes, the president is retweeting the wrong kind of intellectually bankrupt frauds

what a day

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.

“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby - congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. ... It’s frankly ridiculous,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.

good luck amending the Constitution

Headline: Trump looks seriously at U.S. Constitution, calls it "ridiculous".

doesn't he know he's supposed to call them "anchor babies" to dehumanize them? i'm sure stephen miller will whisper the words in his ears soon.

so they're "looking" at repealing the 14th amendment?
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Ireland got rid of this like ten years ago by popular plebiscite.

i know the greenland thing is a footnote in the trump presidency, but look how pathetic he is

The statement from Mette Frederiksen, the 41-year-old prime minister of Denmark, had called Mr. Trump’s hope of buying Greenland “absurd,” a statement the president called “nasty.”

“I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “But all they had to do is say, no, we’d rather not do that or we’d rather not talk about it.”

Mr. Trump asserted he was taking umbrage on behalf of his nation.

“She’s not talking to me, she’s talking to the United States of America,” he said. “They can’t say ‘how absurd.’ ”

sounds like a guy who has surrounded himself with sycophants, big surprise

"looking at" is gen Shitheadese for "making noise w/ no followthru"

NARRATOR: She was talking to him

"how absurd" re: the USA is otm though

Headline: Trump looks seriously at U.S. Constitution, calls it "ridiculous".

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 21, 2019 1:15 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It contains words that aren't his name so yeah. He'll only be satisfied when the world is a Trumpian version of Malkovich taking the portal into his own head.

“They can’t say ‘how absurd.’ ” for September title.

"very not nice way of saying something" --a professional orator, a leader of a global power

when he talks about other people not saying things in a nice way, it carries a lot of weight because he is renowned for being so kind and polite

'Sad!' - an oil-soaked gutter rat struggling to escape a rotisserie chicken carcass