The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

Guess I'll be doing BDS forever. Anyone want a unopened SodaStream white elephant gift?

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/460746-mcconnell-white-house-preparing-gun-violence-proposal

some weird shit going on, GOP Senate playing chicken with the NRA hoping Trump will give them cover (I sort of doubt he will - he'll probably propose something and then undermine it the next day)

John Bolton's sudden departure is a symbol of the disarray that has unnerved our allies since day one of the Trump Administration. Steady leadership & strategic foreign policy is key to ensuring America’s national security. https://t.co/MQIYet8pnA

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 10, 2019

wtf Nancy

Bolton sucks and it's good that he got fired

ffs let her troll

she doesn’t say “John Bolton is good and we should keep him”

it is dumb and bad to be constantly hiring and firing everyone around you (except your family)

Hey, firing people has always been his main schtick.

not having a lunatic warmonger as your NSA is also key to ensuring America’s national security

Which is why he SHOULDN'T HAVE HIRED HIM

run government like a business

zero doubt Pelosi prefers stable evil to other kinds.

I like my evil with a side of arugula and a martini, please.

if he has the attention span for this issue he's going to do some real harm

Quote from Trump official in this @boreskes story suggests intent of visit to LA is to exploit California homeless crisis, not seriously explore remedies https://t.co/aHnnPbTRF4

— Stuart Leavenworth (@sleavenworth) September 10, 2019

Luckily he doesn't have the attention span to finish a piss before wandering away from the toity. Just don't suggest that he might be wrong about something and it'll be fine.

So! In that NC special election Dan McCready is overperforming, surpassing his 2018 numbers in early voting.

He’s going to lose though

Yeah, it’s pretty close, but he seems to have lost.

I didn't think he would either, but the NC GOP's gotta be sweating.

Margin of victory: 2% - roughly 4200 votes.

Seems like this is every election in my recent memory. Could just a few more Dems get off their asses to the voting booth ffs?

That...kinda happened in the midterms?

Midterms were good, they were not the massive repudiation I would have wished.

Given the failure of the entire media and governmental infrastructures of the US to repudiate an openly treasonous looting of the country, the voting public did a reasonable job of gesturing towards it.

this is kind of a fun reminder that we're all going to have to go through Election Day 2020

sic realistically otm :(

Midterms were good, they were not the massive repudiation I would have wished.

― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Midterms were better than expected by every metric.

you sound like... a baseball fan

Baseball fans are gay.

some! eg Nate Silver

this is kind of a fun reminder that we're all going to have to go through Election Day 2020

Newp. After voting Imma go into an extended news blackout / drinking jag / induced coma / remote cabin. Following partial returns is just not a thing I can do anymore. 42 years in DC, loads of political engagement and volunteering and just... no.

I am not going to sit in front of a television or computer while people talk about how with two percent of precincts reporting, Shmurp is up by fifty points, BUT WAIT, we just got results from Glurp County, which includes suburban Gleepburg. Those voters tend to be more blurpservative. So Shmurp is going to have to do really well with the college students and lacrosse moms in Norzberg County.

Gleepburg is more purple these days.

Yep. Putting myself through a repeat of election night 2016 might literally kill me. And I mean literally. Vote and then all contact with the outside world ceases until mo(u)rning.

cspan can fuck right off with this shit

"'Some people did something' said a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota…Today I am here to respond to you exactly who did what to whom."

Full video here: https://t.co/K2m92hUsMP#September11 pic.twitter.com/3DjjsPYzCw

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 11, 2019

Imagine still peddling this shit 18 years into a massive war crime that has killed countless women in Afghanistan https://t.co/1hLE2OVjmI

— Nora BarrowsFriedman (@norabf) September 11, 2019

xp "some people did something" is kind of a dubya-esque gaffe; omar was just setting the scene

I'm probably one of the few people on this board who marched against the war in Afghanistan back in 2001, but 'massive war crime'?

oh Christ

your ego and stupidity are so well married

I’m probably one of the few people on this board who marched against the war in Afghanistan back in 2001

lol

#neverforget

xp ha was gonna say. do you even ilx bro ?

I'm probably one of the few people on this board who marched against the war in Afghanistan back in 2001, but 'massive war crime'?

― Frederik B, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 7:33 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha wow fuck off buddy

CBS News reports:

Aggravation over Iran and the Taliban had intensified recently as Mr. Trump wanted a meeting to take place at Camp David and is open to a meeting with Iran’s president.

But three sources directly involved tell CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett that the main irritant that drove Mr. Trump to distraction was his belief that Bolton or those close to Bolton leaked a story about Mr. Trump asking about whether nuclear weapons could be used to abate hurricanes.

Let’s say you are a taliban and you receive ‘an invitation’ ‘from the president’ ‘to discuss peace’ ‘at Camp David’, how suspicious would you be?

🐦[Imagine still peddling this shit 18 years into a massive war crime that has killed countless women in Afghanistan https://t.co/1hLE2OVjmI🕸
— Nora BarrowsFriedman (@norabf) September 11, 2019🕸]🐦

from whom?

Ask the women of Afghanistan if they’re cool with going back to taliban rule

quite a binary you have there

... Condoleeza

ask them if they’re cool going back to being alive, first things first