The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

*plays driving 16th note pattern on hi-hats*

Statement from my spokesman: pic.twitter.com/0smIAb5ptA

— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) August 28, 2019

I wonder to what extent some retiring republicans are thinking 'hey, the SC is ours for the foreseeable future, maybe I don't need to be quite as personally involved in powerfucking my country.'

:(

xp

https://www.trumpcareiud.com/

the level of voter suppression in GA next year is gonna be INSANE

Weird that from Abrams to O'Rourke, they think they can make a bigger impact anywhere but in the Senate. Maybe they're right! But if we get a Dem president and the Senate stays red, lotta good that will do us.

I think Abram's calculations are different from O'Rourke

I know they are all working with different maths and strategies, but ... snagging the senate seems pretty key to, well, the survival of this country.

dumb to speculate about this, but it does seem like Abrams has no interest in running in an election, unlike Beto

Oh, for sure, she clearly has other things to do. Just a possible missed opportunity is all.

....And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2019

wouldn't be surprised if there are, uh, some "security incidents" when this happens
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-visit-Bay-Area-fundraiser-first-time-GOP-RNC-14386143.php

Huh. Assuming he actually follows through, it would be an exceptionally rare display of legit courage on his part.

obviously like 90% of the population here hates his fucking guts with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns, so if he does follow through protests are gonna be significant

Sir, please come to Oakland

Today USCIS issued guidance that DHS "no longer considers children of U.S. government employees and U.S. armed forces members residing outside the United States as 'residing in the United States' for purposes of acquiring citizenship” --https://t.co/IRNR21Qm4P

— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) August 28, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZ5e94QnWk
"I'm from a place where you prolly can't go / Speakin' for some people that you prolly ain't know"

He will probably visit google, facebook and twitter because without those 3 companies, he would never have become president.

xxp: ok, that is completely insane.

I...kinda can't wait to see how that one blows up in his face. Because yes: pretty much legitimately insane, and also self-defeating.

if it results in Meghan McCain getting deported I guess its not so bad

would that apply to parents who are US citizens as well (meaning they'd be declaring that the children of US citizens are not citizens, which seems...unlikely to hold up in court)? or is it a specific 'fuck you' to to government/military employees who aren't US citizens?

b-b-b-but some of those kids will be white

How's he doing with Zagat?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:51 PM (yesterday)

This “stable genius” tucked away on Pennsylvania Ave will make you “want to murder him in his sleep" and appeals to guests by a combination of "graft, intimidation, flattery, and race-baiting." Morning visitors can catch this "subliterate" "disgusting bag of shit" with "the moral compass of Leopold II" and "obvious and serious mental problems" prone on his tannning bed, "just pretty much constantly and unconvincingly lying" through his "anus-like mouth."

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, August 28, 2019 6:19 AM (five hours ago)

this was a Very Good Post btw

I thought this story was sick enough when i heard about it this morning
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-immigration-border-cancer-children-healthcare-deport-a9080601.html
faamilies wuith children who had leave to remain in th ecountry because life threatening illness wasn't available elsewhere given 33 days to leave the country.

Now he's pushing that further still.
Is he ever going to stop? Or could somebody just permanently stop him?

Timothy Garner from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, can permanently stop him

I’m at the Jersey Shore and it’s amazing how many Trump as Superman, Trump as Captain America, and Trump 2020: Make the Liberals Cry Again T-shirt’s are on sale at the boardwalk alongside all the Fortnight, Billie Eilish and RIP Nipsey and XXX shirts.

cool screen name karl 😎

Jersey shore T-shirt shops don't give a fuck and will put up anything that sold just one time so not very surprising there xp

"That’s what I do, Win."

Who talks like this

Yeah, it's a whole different thing coming out of the mouth of someone while their diaper runoff is sliding down the inside of their thigh.

Yes, businessman who is notable for having failed at business repeatedly and ineptly pissing away more money than most people will see in a lifetime, tell us another one about how much of a winner you are.

Guys the storm is not going to hit PR as hard. The nuke worked!

nuclear deterrence

Re Abrams, I get the impression from interviews and statements she's made that she's simply not interested in serving in Congress and doesn't think it's a good fit for her skill set. She's more interested in executive leadership, whether that's governor of Georgia or leading a voting-rights organization.

Great job MSNBC dork ! Going with a thinly sourced story and now having to apologize for it . Like wtf dumb ass?

remember when Maddow did similar thing? her huge scoop that was nothing. I don't know wtf is goin thru their heads. You can't make these easily-preventable mistakes when the nation's mouth-breathers are ready to pounce on anything that can remotely be pegged as FakeNews.

Apologizing is dumb as shit but not as dumb as reporting thinly sourced stories when the president does impeachable things in the open on a daily basis

this is what happens when you replace actual journalism with personality driven opinion & talking head shows

Why would he apologize? He said "if true" about sixty times during the original piece. If someone from Team Trump says "This is all bullshit" all he has to say is "We'll find out during the discovery phase, won't we?"

Prefacing everything with “if this is true” is some of the laziest bs reporting ever . Shit it’s not even reporting is it!

“Some people are saying “

Well, tbf, they are.

xp exactly. his job is to determine it's veracity and THEN report it

that all being said, I totally believe his "scoop" lol

Haha the fact that Trump brought in his lawyers on the matter leads me to believe it 110% tru

^^^ If Trump denies it, it's true. If Trump lawyers up, what the fuck do you think?

i love how that fox and friends anchor was gushing that Trump is the only president who looks progressively younger the further we get into his term, when not only is it the opposite but his neck has grown a butt

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190828153215-02-donald-trump-august-26-2019-medium-tease.jpg

https://twitter.com/trumpneckvagina