The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

"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.

https://www.funnywebsite.com/funny-website/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/stayoff.jpg

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.

well for what reason does a person need that many kids in 2019 ?

Replacements

I get that as a general rule, but fyi this guy has sponsored several bills attacking/limiting abortion and contraception, so clearly he doesn't mind weighing in on people's family choices

I feel like it's wrong to criticize these types of family choices

Humans are destroying the entire biosphere. This guy has too many of them.

O'Doyle rules

It's kind of telling how few anti-abortion assholes have more than a few kids.

let's get real, willingly having 9 kids in your house is fucking nuts

it'll be great for a next-gen REAL WORLD spinoff though

9 is the number of children you have when you expect 5 to die by age 10

Humans are destroying the entire biosphere. This guy has too many of them.

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, August 26, 2019 9:02 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

qfft

tax breaks for vasectomies 2022

Get castrated, never pay taxes again!

i always thought conservatives just had lots of kids to use as human shields

9 people makes for a pretty effective shield

figured it was the ol religious "be fruitful and multiply", with a touch of "we must repopulate the master race" thrown in recently

Blessed be the fruit

Maybe he really really wants to be able to field a whole baseball team at family reunions.

what FEC?

https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/federal-election-commission-fec-to-effectively-shut-down/

Feel like having such a brood would keep you mentally agile in your old age,trying to remember all your grandchildrens' names

i was trying to see if he was part of the quiverfull bs but Duffy's parents had 11 kids! wtf.

irish catholics!

tax breaks forvasectomies 2022

― cheese canopy (map), Monday, August 26, 2019 4:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

/s/mandatory

No bedbugs at Doral. The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor. Not nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019

how is the President of the United States openly lobbying to have the G-7 Summit at his own property not an immediately impeachable offense

Because the president can do anything he wants. You apparently missed the official tweet on that one.

Few things make me barf more forcefully than when one of the worst human beings on the planet engages in his casual schoolmarm LARPing. Very rude!

The bedbugs are a feature, not bugs

TRUMP BEDBUGS

heh – Brett Stephens complained about a student who called him a bedbug.

a professor but yes

whoops yeah

is bedbug a slur of some kind?

Brettbug Stephens “leaving” Twitter and the Andy Ngo/ PP video surfacing and his getting canned by fucking Quillette have been a couple of bright spots in an otherwise bleak summer of very online politics

is bedbug a slur of some kind?

It is in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. See also "crazy as a ____."

"Bugfuck", the defence claimed, was a word Ellison used to describe people he admired. he even used it on himself. At other times (the attorney said) Ellison had happily described himself as "crazy as a bedbug".

Brett Stephens is not known for his sense of humor.

the professor had a thread making fun of the rhetorical style of loads of NYT writers, riffing on an apparent infestation of the physical newsroom with real actual bedbugs. he did not burst out of a cupboard and yell “you’re a bedbug!” at triggered snowflake Bret Stephens.

link? this is the only tweet I'm aware of:

The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens. https://t.co/k4qo6QzIBW

— davekarpf (@davekarpf) August 26, 2019

that's the one

oh dammit I guess that was someone else. I hope Stephens CC’d that person’s employer on a complaint email too.