US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

at least he had a dog to bite the officers... Trump had no dog ;-(

commander biting the secret service over and over is def the highlight of the administration

thing is you can see how a dog might consider those guys a threat

Woke Doggo

Trump had no dog ;-(

He just likes talking about them being hunted down or being inferiors.

Gov. Shapiro cancels weekend fundraisers in the Hamptons

Shapiro’s “trip was planned several weeks ago and included several fundraisers for his own campaign committee,” spox Manuel Bonder said. “His schedule has changed and he is no longer traveling to the Hamptons this weekend”

— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) August 1, 2024

hmm

Trump was never invited to the Hamptons

Not even a single Hampton

Sad

Even Sammy Hagar had a standing Hampton.

Why is Trump being so modest about his own crucial role in the prisoner exchange?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/world/video/jd-vance-prisoner-swap-russia-trump-digvid

Facebook link, so get it while it's hot!

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Here to tell you that someone just won Twitter with Stephen Miller’s new nickname, Pee-Wee German.

"people are always going to genuflect before these great men regardless but one would hope they consider genocide in the debts column ahead of such generics as "the economy"

no love for the almost 200,000 dead russians biden is indirectly responsible for killing either. nobody cares here. well, maybe russian-americans care. they aren't allowed on u.s. television though. (okay, anecdotal. but i watch a lot of t.v. and i have never seen a russian-american talk about the war. feel bad for all those prisoners who were lured out of jail to become cannon fodder. or forced to be cannon fodder. and, obviously, i feel bad for the ukranians too. its sickening. the whole thing is just sadness. and don't get me started about yemen. hundreds of u.s. airstrikes. nobody even knows what a yemen is here. hundreds of thousands dead from war and hunger since 2014. just bleaker than bleak. and don't get me started on sudan! and then there are those american troops i syria and iraq...)

UAW President Shawn Fain doesn't like the idea of Mark Kelly or Josh Shapiro as Harris's VP. He supports Beshear and/or Walz.

Ah yes

https://www.mediaite.com/news/billionaire-gop-donor-peter-thiel-blames-christianity-for-wokeness-it-always-takes-the-side-of-the-victim/

xp I mean, name me a President in the last 50 years who hasn't presided over some form of genocide or funded/been involved with foreign powers that summarily murdered hundreds of thousands of people. Outside of maybe Carter, I can't think of any, and maybe one of you can correct me on Carter.

At some point you just start making relative comparisons, I guess

Carter, heeding neocon advice, kissed the shah's ass.

and Somoza's iirc

Even Sammy Hagar had a standing Hampton.

I almost read this as "Sammy Hamgar" and thought he maybe needed some oil in the Hamptons

xxp forgiveness and turning the other cheek is the epitome of wokeness, he's absolutely correct

wokeness
wokeness
even if
even if
you don't love meeee anymore

yeah when i think of wokeness i think of humility.

Jimmy Carter was kinda pro-Khmer Rouge for awhile because they hated the Vietnamese

i don't know, i blame christianity for pretty much everything. its easy to do. pick something! you can find a way to blame christianity for it.

If only more American Christians actually followed the religious messages of "love thy neighbor", "judge not, lest ye be judged" and "do unto others as they would do unto you". That's literally empathy and "wokeness" right there. Not exactly what the "religious right" seems to be doing these days.

haha WTF... Putin was shaking in his jackboots

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) suggested Thursday that fear of a second Trump administration motivated Russia to agree to the historic prisoner swap with the U.S.

“We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with,” Vance said.

“But we have to ask ourselves: Why are they coming home? And I think it’s because bad guys all over the world recognize Donald Trump’s about to be back in office, so they’re cleaning house,” he said. “That’s a good thing, and I think it’s a testament to Donald Trump’s strength.”

Former Rickover-era Naval nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter also thought that nuclear war was winnable and changed US strategic nuclear policy to launch-on-warning - arguably making everything less safe.

re: Carter - "Inaugurated 13 months after Indonesia’s December 1975 invasion of East Timor, Carter stepped up U.S. military aid to the Jakarta regime as it continued to murder Timorese civilians. By the time Carter left office, about 200,000 people had been slaughtered."

Every president assumes responsibility for mass deaths somewhere in the world. Its part of the job.

Thiel’s explanation of woke is on par with Trump’s attempt to describe religion. These people are really stupid.

Every President is responsible for crimes against against humanity... and that's okay.

And here's why.

Fuck you milo

"I mean, name me a President in the last 50 years who hasn't presided over some form of genocide"

oh gosh i know i was just bringing up stuff that nobody cares about or thinks about in the u.s. and that never gets talked about here either. its cool that people in the u.s. care about people in gaza but they really don't care about dead people in yemen, sudan, iraq, or for sure russian soldiers.

Vance is after Harris for using a fake Southern accent even though she was raised in Canada. So I'm making a note to myself to drop the fake Southern accent.

i'm going to make a note to myself to cultivate a Southern accent.

Win or lose, Vance should be the new Secretary of Authenticity.

some of her gestures and intonations code very NorCal/Oakland to me but maybe that’s just me?

It took me 30 years but I finally embraced y'all wholeheartedly.

It starts with being obsequious to customers while waiting tables, starts to slip out here and there when you're drunk and one day it's "all y'all" this and "all y'all" that.

montreal is technically southern canada, so....

Harris moved to Montreal when she was 12

some of her gestures and intonations code very NorCal/Oakland to me but maybe that’s just me?

I hear that.. looking at her birth certificate, it turns out I walk by her Oakland birthplace all the time - a field where there used to be a Kaiser hospital. It's a field now but I understand they're going to build a women's health bldg eventually

A haunted one of course

Never thought I'd see an article like this on fucking Politico.

Weird, cruel, and basically human garbage. If there was a Fuckhead Ocean, Vladimir Futon is crawling on the bottom of it.

Psycho shit like this will get you lots of bookings on Tucker Carlson's show but normal Americans are too busy cheering the U.S. women in gymnastics to create chalkboard scrawls blaming Kamala Harris for who Algeria sends to the Olympics. pic.twitter.com/xo0tg9N2eH

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 1, 2024

Considering this gobshite supports women staying in abusive marriages, I think he's made his position on "grown man pummeling a woman" fairly clear

I feel the California accent has a bit of a twang to it. Stoner diphthongs

But dude

I feel the California accent has a bit of a twang to it

"on the streets of baykersfeeld!"