US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

I have to say it seems extremely unlikely Trump's comm team knows a red triangle was a National Socialist iconography deep cut.

I agree, but as usual they're "nuh-uh it's ANTIFA" response is so sus it makes the original interpretation seem more likely

Anyway, this is definitely weird:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/Intercountry-Adoption/adopt_ref/adoption-statistics1.html

Filter for Cuba, and there has officially been exactly one adoption from Cuba between 1999 and 2018. Female.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:41 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This doesn't mean anything. Gaetz never said that he formally adopted Nestor, much less that it was an intercountry adoption. He said, "He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida."

The Marbelina thing is weird, though.

I'll throw this into the mix: A reporter tweeted that she "wrote an article in 2015 about Gaetz. He had ridiculed black lawmakers & was accused of racism. A GOP operative called & said Gaetz was hurt partially because his girlfriend & her son were people of color." (She goes on to say she doesn't know for sure that this was Nestor, since she wasn't given a name.)

Seems a stupid thing to be focused on. Having a child of color doesn't negate any of the racist things Gaetz has said and done

(not you all so much as twitterverse)

Yeah, I just have a stupid need to research things.

As noted above, its also gross that he chose this particular moment to trot him out as a defense if he really has worked that hard to keep him out of the spotlight for seven years now.

*updates .xls*
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I have to say it seems extremely unlikely Trump's comm team knows a red triangle was a National Socialist iconography deep cut.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, June 18, 2020 4:51 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I agree, but as usual they're "nuh-uh it's ANTIFA" response is so sus it makes the original interpretation seem more likely

― dip to dup (rob), Thursday, June 18, 2020 4:55 PM (forty-six minutes ago)

an alternate theory: they're baiting the platforms so they can get banned closer to the election

I have to say it seems extremely unlikely Trump's comm team knows a red triangle was a National Socialist iconography deep cut.

ever since the "14 of every 88 immigrants" press release or whatever the fuck that was I stopped giving these guys the benefit of the doubt on any of this shit

I have seen tweets that called for Gaetz to be outed along with Lindsey Graham so idk if that's common knowledge but it definitely makes this even weirder.

there is literally no evidence anyone in the trump comms team has the ability to think imaginitavely or strategically, what is wrong with you people.

I can't quite confirm whether they ran 88 of those triangle ads before FB pulled it or if they chose to run it for 88 impressions, but uh: https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/facebook-let-trump-campaign-run-ads-inverted-red-triangle-infamous-nazi-symbol

caek: not sure if that was aimed at me, but I don't think they have a detailed flowchart or anything, just they already bait the platforms anyway and trumpism lusts for martyrdom

ok but "they're baiting the platforms so they can get banned closer to the election" is preposterous.

ok

Having thought about the Gaetz thing more, what grosses me out is that if the story is exactly how he told it, then he was hiding the existence of his Cuban immigrant son because he assumed it would hurt his support among the racists he caters to by being virulently anti-immigrant

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— Jabroni And The Air-rifle (@DanBoeckner) June 18, 2020

gee now would it be fair to wildly speculate on this man's personal life

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But aren't Cubans the "good" brown people to them?

I don’t think white nationalists have co-signed that exemption

To put it another way: I don’t buy wanting to shield him from the spotlight as a reason to bury any and all reference to his existence. That is not normal politician behavior and Gaetz isn’t even that famous

xps FOSTA-SESTA had issues that are too complicated to get into here, but if he voted against it it's probably the least of his offenses

PEOPLE exclusive!

Nestor Galban was 12 and had just arrived from Cuba, where he’d grown up and where his mother had recently died of breast cancer, Gaetz says. Then a state legislator, Gaetz was dating Nestor’s older sister.

And so Nestor moved in with them — “a modern family,” Gaetz says now.

He says that, except for an interruption during Nestor’s junior year after Gaetz and Nestor’s sister broke up, Nestor has basically lived with him since moving from Cuba.

Since when does dating someone make her brother your ... son?

I have a friend who keeps getting stuck with cats from bad relationships but this is just a whole new level

pic.twitter.com/EBK6NKb8z7

— David Iserson (@davidiserson) June 18, 2020

Haven’t read this article but good url

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/everybody-hates-john-bolton-328921

Today in antimetabole:

Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart said at a Wednesday news conference that he had recommended the rally be postponed until it was safer. “I know so many people are over covid,” Dart said. “But covid is not over.”

lol just reported that the Department of Justice admitted the guy in charge of clearing Bolton's book for classified information had no training in how to do so, and in fact wasn't trained until after he had finished the job, at which point he declined to retroactively check again.

"no one's gonna notice..."

Reporter: "Why does the President keep hiring people that are 'dumb as a rock, overrated, way over their heads, whacko, and incompetent'?"

Kayleigh McEnany: "...He likes the model of having a team of rivals, like what we saw in President Lincoln's administration." pic.twitter.com/Bc8bHHxUI5

— The Hill (@thehill) June 19, 2020

this doesn't strike me as the best way to answer this question

follow-up: Kayleigh, do you consider yourself to be a part of this "team of rivals", and can you keep in mind the first part of the question as you answer, i'll take my answer off the air

PS GOD IS DEAD KAYLEIGH FUCK YOU

team of whackos

Nestor Galban was 12 and had just arrived from Cuba, where he’d grown up and where his mother had recently died of breast cancer, Gaetz says. Then a state legislator, Gaetz was dating Nestor’s older sister.
And so Nestor moved in with them — “a modern family,” Gaetz says now.

OK so do I have this right, Gaetz is Ed O'Neill and Nestor is Manny?

“President Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he protects those who cannot protect themselves—both here and abroad—and that’s clear in this latest bold action to impose travel restrictions on those who detain or abuse the Uighurs,” said John Ullyot, spokesman for the National Security Council.

this is rich...so the ban Trump won't shut up about as the One Huge Thing he did to fight the virus...was secretly really a coded message against concentration camps haaaaaaa

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wonders-if-john-bolton-will-go-to-jail?ref=home ^

wonder how Trump supporters square the fact that he thinks this virus is no big deal with his claim that it would have killed 3,000,000 people if not for him

Friday night news of the abrupt departure of the US attorney from SDNY who indicted Giuliani associates, is investigating Rudy and named Trump as individual 1 in Michael Cohen case over president’s role in hush-money scandal to silence his alleged affairs https://t.co/orofnBaQZg

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 20, 2020

US Atty for SDNY Geoffrey Berman was fired. The news came as a shock tonight. Sources close to him & DOJ official say AG Barr offered him other positions including head of Civil Division at main justice and Berman declined. News via me @alex_mallin & @AaronKatersky

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) June 20, 2020

!!

NEW: Geoff Berman statement:

“I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was ‘stepping down’ as United States Attorney. I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position" pic.twitter.com/L6PQCF9bdU

— erica orden (@eorden) June 20, 2020

You can’t fire me! Because I don’t quit!!

Jeff not fucking around!

IT’S GEOFF

lol

America is right to expect the worst of Bill Barr, who has repeatedly interfered in criminal investigations on Trump’s behalf. We have a hearing on this topic on Wednesday. We welcome Mr. Berman’s testimony and will invite him to testify. https://t.co/SpVYzLhANR

— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) June 20, 2020

well this is fun

by the way, am i wrong to connect this to the relative silence on these cases since the impeachment "trial"?

have they really been just working in silence for 5 months (jfc has it only been 5 months since then), or have they been silenced?

if he loses, he's going to jail, or he's going to die with pending criminal indictments.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, June 8, 2020 5:09 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

c'mon that gov-approved strongboy body of his leads me to believe it won't be anytime soon