At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

people like their doctors, not their insurers. I guess candidates are wary of promising that everyone would get to keep their doctor since we all remember Obama said that and it was the Great Lie that blots out the 10,000 lies Trump tells every single day.

WOW! #Trump's prompter often contains phonetic spellings because he knows so little and is such a bad reader. Today, George Wythe was spelled "With" for him. He just pronounced the name of this historical figure correctly and then, inexplicably, read out the incorrect spelling. pic.twitter.com/Hss0WPUE4c

— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) July 30, 2019

incredible names. incredible names.

people like their doctors, not their insurers.

I hate my doctor; she's a mean bitch who yells at me in a Romanian accent.

dude

We've got some pretty shitty doctors back home, and they usually expect a tip on top of everything else (speaking of which, we've got thousands of words for 'tip' in Romanian…). Can't you switch to a different one?

the arc of the ilx thread is long, but it bends towards tipping

Bg you get the full 20% from for that one

now check out this ronaldinho bottle opener

Can't you switch to a different one?

Inertia is a powerful force. Honestly, it's fine. I go in every 3-4 months, she tells me I'm soft and out of shape (which I know) and that I eat like shit (which I know) and asks me if I need any of my prescriptions refilled, and I give her $150 'cause she doesn't take my insurance.

lol, then she doesn't sound like a bad doctor, just very un-American.

I ditched my doctor after coming to him for 7 years and getting the same “you’re young, don’t worry about it” from him well into my 40s.

My doctor now is a millennial who will tell me exactly what she thinks is my ailment and what the treatment is, if any.

tide pods amirite

She said I’m too old to be eating them

CNN’s Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television, insinuated last night while asking a debate “question” that I was a racist, when in fact I am “the least racist person in the world.” Perhaps someone should explain to Don that he is supposed to be neutral, unbiased & fair,.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2019

....or is he too dumb (stupid} to understand that. No wonder CNN’s ratings (MSNBC’s also) have gone down the tubes - and will stay there until they bring credibility back to the newsroom. Don’t hold your breath!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2019

"too dumb (stupid}" should def be part of the August thread title

wait, CNN's and MSNBC's ratings are down?? I've never heard the President of the United States mention that!

If they'd been written by anyone but the least racist person in the world, I might've suggested that those tweets had the distinctive bouquet of racism about them.

i want to know who he thinks is "the most racist person in the world"

Obama duh

and who is giving out all these cool titles ?

dumb (stupid}

good choice for august thread imo

^^^^^^^^^

xp I'm more interested in who the *second* least racist person is

Trump's dad.

when in fact I am “the least racist person in the world.”

sure do wish he would die!!

The least-racist indicator probably conforms exactly to GOP pecking order, with Jim Inhofe clocking in at #10 or something

Does trump call any caucasians racist or does he just reserve the term for other ethnicities?
Noticed that he used the term for both the members of the squad and Elijah Cummings.

In related news, I'm sure glad Ronnie wasn't a racist!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/

He used it in the anti-speciesist sense, amirite?

it is "funny" how the ppl who complain that "racist" is an overused description NEVER call any living white person racist

arguably there were some white racists in the past, but obviously trump would be fully aware of that and wouldn't, you know, choose one of them as his favorite president

https://i.imgur.com/rro9MEN.jpg

if, hypothetically speaking, there were a racist in the White House, who would it choose as its fav ex-President hmmm

if you can get some kind of mental distance from this administration, it's kind of beautiful:

Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and some have been criticized for the same kind of disrepair and neglect that the president has accused local leaders of failing to address. Residents have complained about mold, bedbugs, leaks and, yes, mice — plenty of mice. And they say management appears in no hurry to fix the problems.

https://www.apnews.com/3b82dd98c56f45d4a97170c3f758cb84

Well, naturally. The GOP plays an active role in creating/perpetuating the conditions they seek to denigrate.

I know, but the hypocrisy is so pure and unadorned sometimes there's a poetry to it

the gaslighting is constant. he only said that about Baltimore in order to draw attention to the awful conditions! He just wants to help! Every single person in Baltimore has personally called and thanked him!

"Not a lot of people know this, but Cal Ripkin said I work harder than he did. Much harder."

NEW: Two former top staffers to Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and Treasury on the development of a new Kentucky mill backed by Russian aluminum giant Rusal. McConnell's office won't say whether he's been lobbied by them directly.
w/@theodoricmeyer https://t.co/ENSRyXClqP

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 31, 2019

so the plan is to just say moscow mitch until he legally changed his name to that right?

according to today's NYT story, the Moscow Mitch nickname is the first insult to get under his skin.

we have opened the Ark

fuck yeah, let it flow forth through their eyeballs

what's wrong with being racy

https://cathedral.org/have-we-no-decency-a-response-to-president-trump.html

nice

"no wonder the Fat Sleepy Washington National Cathedral is losing Members!!"

As faith leaders who serve at Washington National Cathedral ¬– the sacred space where America gathers at moments of national significance – we feel compelled to ask: After two years of President Trump’s words and actions, when will Americans have enough?

took them seven months to get around to posting their reply

We all figured that, given time, he would eventually become presidential. I mean, really, who's to say he still won't someday.

Just hope this isn't what presidential comes to mean.
Really the most venal, like.
KIng of the heap etc etc