The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

I have a question: are Trump episodes of the Aprentice shown a lot nowadays? Are they popular?

I thought the whole purpose of the helicopter speech thing was to be able to say I can't hear and at least give the semblance of trying. It hs presumably been recognised as a playbook move for a while though.
& now seems like he's (presumably) unintentionally destroying that too.

the sound of the blades and his voice shouting over it, combined with the neverending waves of stupidity and absurdity of what he's saying.

I'm already picturing this as a ConferenceCall.biz type piece.

his hair blowing right off his head in the rotor-wash at point which he dissolves into smoke and blows away is a style i like to imagine, but far far below my desire for him to not die before arriving in the dock. for him to avoid it by death would be epstein-levels of justice-denied.

I wouldn't mind a Dawn of the Dead style death by helicopter. That would be a pretty incredible end to his ugly chapter in the history books.

For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Case closed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019

Of course if a (nominal) Republican decides to nationalize industries, that won't be socialism, no sir. Just patriotism (and a very manly display of presidential will).

Can we all please just relax about Justice Ginsburg?

Mitch told us that we don't fill Supreme Court vacancies in election years. We're supposed to wait until the people have spoken.

Unless he was a total lying hypocrite last time, and unless he'll totally forget that sacred historical precedent.

But that'll never happen, right?

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the sound of the blades and his voice shouting over it, combined with the neverending waves of stupidity and absurdity of what he's saying.

I'm already picturing this as a ConferenceCall.biz type piece.

― jmm

kind of embarrassing on my part, but i was curious about this a few months ago so i added it to the doonald website:

http://doonaldjtrump.com/helicopter.html

(warning: i didn't try very hard, the mixing is bad, and it didn't turn out very well)

actually, it does work well with some of the clips, but not so well with others. in the words of teens everywhere, but actually accurate, "it's so random"

But that'll never happen, right?

McConnell already was asked about that during an interview earlier this year and his answer was (paraphrasing here): "Of course I'll act like a hypocrite piece of shit and ram the nomination through right away, because no matter how big an asshole I am I will never get my comeuppance; look at Strom Thurmond for god's sake".

The duplicity is a positive trait for them, there’s no shame.

lmao i'm an idiot. I'm only now realizing the Joe Walsh whose Never Trumper tweets people post on ILX is a former U.S. Rep and not the member of Eagles

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DON: Well, yeah.

Joe Walsh: Life Ain't Good

chud all night

Couldn't get much higher

jesus

https://www.nytco.com/press/a-campaign-targeting-our-staff/

yikes

The Trump campaign focus-grouped the idea of putting journalists in concentration camps, but decided against it because all the unfavorable publicity lately about putting immigrant toddlers in concentration camps has given such places a bad reputation. So, instead they decided on a tamer plan to smear journalists reputations and try to arouse public anger against them personally.

They'll revisit the concentration camp idea later when all the fuss has died down a bit.

Our president wants to implement policy ideas he got from watching Sharknado 3, this is not a drill https://t.co/zDtIWleDdp

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) August 25, 2019

WASHINGTON — A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.

It is the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting. Four people familiar with the operation described how it works, asserting that it has compiled dossiers of potentially embarrassing social media posts and other public statements by hundreds of people who work at some of the country’s most prominent news organizations.

The group has already released information about journalists at CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times — three outlets that have aggressively investigated Mr. Trump — in response to reporting or commentary that the White House’s allies consider unfair to Mr. Trump and his team or harmful to his re-election prospects.

Operatives have closely examined more than a decade’s worth of public posts and statements by journalists, the people familiar with the operation said. Only a fraction of what the network claims to have uncovered has been made public, the people said, with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up. The research is said to extend to members of journalists’ families who are active in politics, as well as liberal activists and other political opponents of the president.

the press is the enemy of the people

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early?

JUST IN: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang says has no info on phone calls to U.S. cited by Trump, adding later “I can tell you clearly that I haven’t heard of such a thing”
* Says China will protect itself on trade if U.S. persists with current approach

— Melissa Cheok (@mkcheok) August 26, 2019

Yes, well

Sure, just say that China called you. Who's gonna check? Nobody checks these things, right?

many people are saying

I for one see no reason to doubt the word of President Stephen Glass.

666 likes, China is clearly great Satan, Trump must tariff or Jesus will take a soul tax when he comes back

"Mr. President, this is a P.F. Chang's..."

good morning!

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was asked asked this morning why President Trump skipped a G7 meeting on biodiversity, climate and oceans.

She said the President was tied up in meetings with Germany and India.

“The President had scheduled meetings and bilaterals with Germany and India, so a senior member of the Administration attended in his stead," she said.
However, both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were seen attending the climate session that Trump skipped.

Modi even tweeted about said meeting

What are you going to believe, empirical evidence or the squall of a glitching Speak & Spell in an ill-fitting suit?

a senior member of the Administration=Ivanka?

unnamed senior members of the administration are assumed to be one of the group of 10-15 generic bald guys in a suit that follow him around and say yes

Unnamed senior cabinet members = whomever is scheduled at KFC that day

"GOP Rep. Sean Duffy to resign next month, citing complications related to his wife’s pregnancy."

For once someone honestly stepping down to spend more time with their family. Also, Sean Duffy - actually the first reality show politician, right?

I’m sorry Rachel is having complications but THANK FUCKING GOD THAT ASSHOLE IS LEAVING THE HOUSE

This will be his 9th child. ffs.

9 children?! Jesus, it's like he's breeding Republicans.

they're certainly not winning over new ones with policies

9 children? I wonder if he has any idea what's causing it.

Creationism.

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condoms are the Devil's cellophane

I feel like it's wrong to criticize these types of family choices, but also think they are deeply fucked up.