US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

Lol Neanderthal

hmm... I guess Outback is a table service restaurant

what's wrong with working at outback steakhouse?

FP’d you for cultural appropriation

haha take it easy matey

'ave a bloomin' onion!

Donald trump

no rules

just right

Pope Donald?

Dope Ponald

Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2019

JUST DIE YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT

how did i miss the claim that don mcgahn is 'absolutely immune' to congressional subpoenas because he is 'the alter ego of the president'

sometimes I suspect he or likely someone else in his administration just has a long list of asshole things to do, and whenever they are bored, or need a distraction, just spin the wheel and pick something to be an asshole about.

I love this GOP defense that it's not a crime cuz the extortion scheme didn't bear fruit - it's like Sideshow Bob's "attempted murder" defense

"It's a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark."

SPLC Hatewatch: Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails

The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.

good thing he didn't get what he wanted!!!!

leaked emails reveal that terrible things rooted in white supremacy that have already happened were discussed beforehand by a person that is clearly a white supremacist

He literally worked with Richard Spencer?

SPLC Hatewatch: Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed Via Stephen Miller's Every Action in the Public Sphere

going to be awesome when Miller is stuck like dogshit to the bottom of the GOP's boot the way guys like Bolton and Abrams are now

Thank christ that little Nazi fuck is a complete charisma void with no chance of ever being anything but a background player.

actual human-snake hybrid

"background player" doesn't this guy literally dictate our border policy

Yeah, but I mean someone else will have to hire him and tolerate his reptilian presence for him to have any effect on anything once Trump is blessedly gone.

I know it's not civilized but we're going to need some kind of formalized, public humiliation

burning sage is not going to do the trick

whoops I forgot most of these people are incapable of humiliation

speaking of humiliation, can we discuss Outback again

gday alfred!

lol wtf is this. Obviously a running-scared reaction to recent electoral losses in the suburbs, timed to draw attention away from impeachment but ... what is this (probably totally useless) anti-gun violence initiative gonna consist of? I assume randomly arresting/shotting brown people...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470077-barr-to-launch-anti-gun-violence-initiative-during-public-impeachment

Just Say No To Drugs Guns

G.A.R.E. to keep kids off guns

T.R.U.M.P.E.A.C.H.

This is your brain.

(brings double cheeseburger into frame)

This is your brain on guns.

(throws double cheeseburger at alarmed passerby)

Any questions?

(yes, several)

NAMGLA

trump steaks. ted cruz sr. killed jfk. tax cuts! judge recruits via the federalist society! A.L.E.C. paul manafort. roger stone. jared kushner. hunter biden. 666 5th ave. ivanka. burisma. rosneft. gop. nra

WHAT ELSE DOES QUALMSLEY HAVE TO SAY?????????

Where's The Tax Returns!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VB6uE4ERoM&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/2VB6uE4ERoM

that's p tight

idk how many people like this there are (not a lot, I would guess) but we're gonna need as many of them to either stay home and not vote, or vote Dem, as possible

Warm up the police wagon!!!

—>Today, Rick Gates contradicted Trump’s written answers to Mueller’s questions.

Trump said he did not "recall" any conversations with Roger Stone re WikiLeaks & he first learned about the hacked emails "at or shortly after the time it became the subject of media reporting." 1/

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 12, 2019

When the only thing your supporters are able to cling to is "but the economy is booming!" it's good to inflate those numbers by bajillions.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html?fbclid=IwAR09z0AkC8OVBVrWUzeaW3YDsly0yN3MlMnj17GmXlXmj4p3-EFq24nDF_w#comments

idk how many people like this there are (not a lot, I would guess) but we're gonna need as many of them to either stay home and not vote, or vote Dem, as possible

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

or die of a Doritos-induced heartburn

"Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."

Trump tells his story about how the first thing nearly every leader says to him is "congratulations on your economy." He says this includes prime ministers and presidents, kings and queens, dictators. "Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 12, 2019

nKentuckian of note Tarence Ray looks back on the Kentucky gubernatorial election

If the Trump strategy is going to work for a governor, then, he must set his sights on select internal enemies of his state. Bevin unwisely chose public sector workers as his target, and he paid the ultimate price for it: these people are mostly middle class, they have nuclear families and mortgages, and they vote. He insulted them, then implemented harsher austerity measures on them in a ham-fisted attempt to fix the pension crisis, and then insulted them some more for whining about it. It’s no coincidence that he didn’t perform well in the suburbs. Bevin forgot the first rule of neoliberal governing: never insult the people you’re putting the screws to. This is America. You have to convince them that the austerity is in their best interest. We like to believe we’re free and democratic in this country, that we’ve chosen our own fate, and Bevin was shattering that illusion.

He was also fucking up the bag. A governor of an economically distressed state like Kentucky has one overriding task, which is to make the state attractive to investment. This includes things like handing out tax breaks to banks, and making workers maximally exploitable through union-busting laws. Bevin did both, but he alienated too many people in the process. Most voters remember that life was more or less the same under Bevin’s predecessor Steve Beshear, minus the circus politics, and so they voted for his cardboard cutout son.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/nothing-to-learn-ray

i had to read all the way to the link to figure out which side was being cynical, well played. i'm sympathetic to the analysis tho

I mean, "national media misreads implications of Southern election" not exactly a huge stretch.

yup/sigh

So are the Republicans gonna do what they did in I forget which state, and hold a late-night lame-duck session to strip the governor's office of all its powers (to be reinstated the minute there's a Republican in there, of course)?