US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

Man upset he can’t bring cutout of Donald Trump to dialysis

^ So, the guy is allowed to bring an item that comforts him. He chooses to bring a photo of Trump. Presumably he is comforted. But suddenly this no longer comforts him and instead he must bring a small cardboard cutout of himself standing next to a Trump photo. This was his second choice. For comfort. So, now he is comforted, right? Nope. For unexplained reasons, this now gives him no comfort. He must have a life-size cutout of Trump. For comfort. The dialysis place objects and he insists they are trampling on his rights.

His son insists the Trump cutout takes up "no more space than a garbage can." Hmmm. Maybe I'd like his son. Hard to say.

he's from Florida. the dude's kid posted about it publicly on FB and I clowned him, and he private messaged me all butthurt.

i'm just loling at a 6 foot Trump cutout under dude's armpits

in bizarroworld trump matches and then donates a kindney.

i'd imagine his kidney is 85% stone at this point

https://jalopnik.com/trumps-attempt-to-roll-back-fuel-economy-standards-cont-1841697849

Why are we doing this again? We may not, in fact, be doing this in the end but if we don’t it’ll either be an almost inspiring story of how expertise prevailed over politics or a laughably incompetent attempt to impose bad public policy just because, pick your poison. Either way, I’m sure we’ll hear more from Trump about it, since Michigan is a swing state and the election is swiftly approaching. Whether the proposal dies or just remains in limbo, Trump will find someone to blame.

My guess is that Trump doesn't care a damn if fuel standards go up, down or sideways. Instead, he is loudly telling his base he's going to shit on the liberals who want to FORCE them to buy better mileage vehicles, when it's their God-given right to drive whatever the hell gas-gulping monster they feel like driving. This makes him a hero and once more proves he is the only politician who really understands them and is on their side of the culture war. If they get that message loud and clear, the actual fuel standards become irrelevant.

Can one heroic NASCAR driver do what we are all secretly hoping, forever removing this tyrant

OH NO. Does this mean I'm gonna be culled from the email list? (No, it does not.)

Bob,

According to our records, your Sustaining Membership has EXPIRED.

This is an official notice that your Sustaining Membership has EXPIRED. If you don’t renew soon, your status will be marked as lapsed.

President Trump wanted us to reach out and ask you why that was, Bob.

2020 Sustaining Members are going to play a VITAL role in President Trump’s 2020 campaign, and he needs to know if he can count on you.

We need every Member to renew if we're going to win again in 2020. Can President Trump count on you, Bob?

Contribute $5 or more before 11:59 PM TONIGHT to renew your Official 2020 Sustaining Membership and let President Trump know you’re with him in 2020. >>
​​​​​​
Your Sustaining Member contribution goes directly toward helping President Trump win in 2020 and continue his hard work to Keep America Great.

We’re sending President Trump an updated list of Sustaining Members tomorrow. Make sure he sees YOUR name at the top of that list.

Please contribute $5 or more before 11:59 PM TONIGHT to ensure that President Trump sees your name on the list of 2020 Sustaining Members.

Thank you,

Team Trump 2020

Is “the President himself would be disappointed to not see your name on the list” a common fundraising tactic?

Probably, although his disappointment would be buried in the tiny pang of disappointment he felt when someone verbally summarized the monthly report on campaign fundraising and came to the item that mentioned that X number of people stopped being "Sustaining Members".

"I'm not saying anyone is expecting drone strikes if you don't re-up your membership but I'm also not saying it's impossible."

i havent novichoked you, but it would be totally my right to do it as Preznit, plenty of countries support this practice.

so Air Force One buzzed the Daytona 500

Sadly Trump wasn't pushed out

President Trump wanted us to reach out and ask you why that was, Bob.

“ITS NOT GREAT BOB”

WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF, BOB?

Seems significant:

Federal judges' association calls emergency meeting after DOJ intervenes in case of Trump ally Roger Stone

only if you care. those judges have no power over Trump, so he will just tweet bad things about them and use it to ask his base for more money, because it's so unfair.

"Zuckerberg appears to be engaged in some kind of mutual assistance arrangement with Donald Trump that will help him to get re-elected," says George Soros in a pointed letter to the FT. He has a point...https://t.co/J84gQ7W16c

— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) February 18, 2020

Soros going against Zuckerberg would really break the antisemitic conspiracy theorists' brains if they weren't already broken

unrelated Q: would it be annoying to also have a rolling 2020 non-presidential election thread (i.e. for Senate/House/State races?)

NO

too many goddamn threads. I've wanted to bury the fucking Bloomberg thread in eight tons of concrete.

i would like that but maybe it is time for a separate politics board...

(i feel like this may have been broached in the past? but i have no idea where ilx folks came down on it)

0bv there's no "Politics" board so

xxxp the narrative

2016: fake news
2020: fake jews

maybe it is time for a separate politics board

strongly agree, might i suggest reddit or styleforum.net

strongly disagree, wtf difference would it make beyond requiring an extra click

that's what they said about the fleshlight

turn on your fleshlight

i was under the impression that minimizing the number of unique areas that we talk about US politics was a good thing, but hey, let's create a politics board and make sure to create ten mini-threads on micro topics.

i already frequently have difficulty remembering if we talked about this thing in Thread A or Thread B

I guess you can file this one under getting pay back on an election year.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/14/mitch-mcconnell-celebrated-key-securing-army-hq-fort-knox/4754106002/

CNBC reports:

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon of Michael Milken, the former junk bond king who became a face of the insider trading financial scandals of the 1980s.

Trump cited the “incredible job” that Milken has done supporting cancer research since his conviction for racketeering and securities fraud.

Milken, 73, originally was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his crimes while heading the bond department at the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, and fined $600 million.

gee wonder why he is suddenly pardoning a bunch of white collar criminals

xpost, I feel like all the politics threads need to be locked for 48 hours. I used to read all of them in their entirety but there is so much chum on them now.

Trump pardons are like when the Joker releases all the criminals from Arkham Asylum

Well here's to hoping they result in the same degree of street justice.

he should pardon Avenatti

the pardons on Trump's final day in office will be hilarious

aaaand the only white collar felon in jail in 2022 is...DONALD J. TRUMP MIWIONAIRE

The facts are just washing over us with numbness, as intended, but it's worth taking a second to try and remember that three years ago it wasn't normal to pardon convicted criminals because you repeatedly saw them on Fox News asking for pardons, or they gave you hundreds of thousands of $ in a couple of months.

Totally missed that Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's sentence. Motherfucker's on a roll, huh.

Good morning!!

for someone so convinced the democrats are crooks he seems to have no problem with the one who is demonstrably a crook

Saw that ol' Blago now referring to himself as a 'Trumpocrat'.

People are just so fucking gross.

Blago was on the Apprentice. Trump said some weird thing about how he admired him because he knew people who gave up and curled up under their desks when faced with less.

don't do your job, or you might lose your job

A top Defense Department official who internally raised concerns about freezing military aid to Ukraine has been asked by his national security superiors to resign and is stepping down.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon John Rood authored emails pushing for the aid to be released, according to CNN.

those national security advisers are spineless fucks

sorry, national security "superiors"