The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

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.

it’s a good thread:

I think you mean there's an insect-tinged problem in the NYT newsroom https://t.co/tQwF7RD7FH

— Lindsey Barrett (@LAM_Barrett) August 26, 2019

meanwhile the president has started on Puerto Rico

Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for “anywhere.”

Wow! Our president is a piece of shit!

Like I'm pretty sure that statement alone would be enough to get a sociopathy diagnosis from a reputable mental health professional.

one sign of strong leadership in a dangerous situation is to ignore the "people" factor and concentrate entirely on how much it will cost (doing so disingenuously, of course). it's good to let people know that you're thinking of them more as a line item on a balance sheet, so they won't get hurt as badly and won't need as much help

i didn't make it clear, sorry. this is his dumb tweet:

Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for “anywhere.”

nuking the hurricane doesn't seem so dumb now, does it

really starting to get the impression that the president does not like having to spend government money on brown people

I'm sure if he shouts at it enough the storm will change its mind and just go away. And if not there are always lots of nucular bombs to throw at it. Whatever it takes to not have to acknowledge that a bunch of brown people on an island...I dunno, somewhere are actually his constituents.

ha, xxpost

Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Is there anything, say in the area of climate change, that the US could do to possibly mitigate... whoops, hold on, another oil company check incoming.... Where were we?

*sounds of deafening helicopter blades overwhelm the discussion*

What if we built giant coal-powered fans (not to be used for wind power!) to blow the hurricanes out of the Caribbean and over to Europe?

not so fast - that could kill birds, and as you know, the conservative movement has very strong views about any wind-based machinery that could be threatening to birds while providing electricity