US Politics, April 2018: Getting more dangerous (looks like moo vaughn's dreams are coming true)

whoever wins... we lose

i'd be okay with a trump/bezos knife fight to the death tho

good mourning!

apparently during that easter bunny shot he was blabbing on and on about how we were going to have a much bigger, better military

it's what jesus would have wanted

It's so cool to have a president who can't even pretend to be a normal human being.

love it when the easter bunny appears more presidential than the man currently occupying the oval office

Am I wrong, or is there a passage in Revelations that basically describes the tableau in that photograph?

ah yes here we go, video if you can stomach it

he's saying this next to the Easter Bunny https://t.co/DVmgHZAJ0N

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 2, 2018

"'Frottage' by Squamous Walrus," sounds like a lost 1960s experimental acid jam, thanks Old Lunch

Always happy to arrange words into unpalatable configurations.

tbf Squamous Walrus did some impressive work before their nightmare descent into drugs and groupies. It's a pity, really. The swirling Farfisa and tabla work on Frottage was groundbreaking, especially the title track. Didn't Glyn Johns produce that album?

he's such a loathsome piece of shit !fucking die already

bit harsh on glyn johns tbh

yeah his drum mic'ing techniques are legendary i don't care if that makes me "neoliberal scum"

amazon...... welcome to the resistance

Love these Richard Lloyd stories of Andy Johns:

The first day in the studio came in November 1976. We had a 2pm start. Andy was nowhere in sight. Finally, about 4.30pm, he came traipsing in. He said, “I came in yesterday, to see what the place was like, and… I can’t work here!” He started listing all the technical tools these old studios didn’t have. We tried to calm him down. Finally, grudgingly, Andy said, “Well, I did manage to set the drums up last night. Got a good sound. Wanna hear it?”

He put on this tape he’d made. And, by God, from the speakers came this humongous, pumped-up John Bonham drum sound. Tom started freaking out. “No! No, no, no, no, no! We don’t want that! You need to take that apart!”

Andy was outraged. “Well, why did you hire me? That’s what I’m famous for. Fuck this! I’m getting a flight back!”

One day, Andy didn’t show up until 6pm. It seems he’d picked up two hookers the night before, who talked him into letting them handcuff him to his bed – then, of course, they took his wallet and blew kisses as they left. The hotel had to free him with a hacksaw. Another day, we came in and Andy was flat out in the producer’s chair in the control room, snoring, holding a three-quarters empty bottle of red wine, with empty bottles scattered around on the floor. We looked at him, then at the tape operator. We said, “Listen. All the mics are set up. Can we just keep the volume down in here and run a song around him?”

So we went in and did “Prove It”. Then we came back to listen back. It sounded pretty good. So we played it back again, a little louder. And we kept increasing the volume until, finally, Andy snorted himself awake.

He sat bolt upright, panicky, paranoid as hell. The music’s playing, and he’s looking between us all, demanding, “Did I record this?”

We said, “Well, sure Andy.” He breathed a sigh of relief. “God, I’m good.” That was Andy. And that’s the cut of “Prove It” that’s on the record.

One down

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-lawyer-who-admitted-lying-to-the-special-counsels-office?utm_term=.ynglGeaaV#.msrm9nrrx

After he finishes his prison sentence, Jackson ordered him to serve two months of supervised release, and he would be required to pay the $20,000 fine in full. However, the judge said she would permit him to voluntarily self-deport from the United States if Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowed it.

He's a rich Dutch citizen living in London who, as a convicted felon, will be disbarred, so I assume self-deporting is indeed the way this dude will go. Staying here would be more like self-immolating. How does disbarring work internationally? If you have been disbarred in the US, does that affect your ability to practice law in England or the Netherlands?

I imagine that when it comes to retaining your license to practice law outside the US, the fact of your disbarring is less important than the reason for your disbarring. In this case, the perp knowingly and carefully planned to deceive the agents of the court regarding material facts during the investigation into a crime. I think every legal system in Europe would take a very dim view of that.

Had a colonoscopy today. My doctor was actually Russian. Now THAT is what I call RUSSIAN MEDDLING! They put me to sleep w/ same stuff Michael Jackon used. When I woke up, I MOON-walked right out of the hospital!

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 3, 2018

I think that's what you would term Asstral Projection

Huckabee was clearly never schooled in the differences between "can" and "should."

Twitter comments are pretty funny on that one.

"Jackon"? More like the opposite.

Stop Asking Billionaires to Save Us for the Love of God

There are few political solutions being floated today that rankle more than “the billionaires will save us.” They will not. With Bezos, the world’s richest man, as our most shining example, billionaires become billionaires because they’re highly skilled at subverting what’s good for people in favor or what will enrich them personally. They are oligarchs and monopolists who dodge taxes and treat workers as another expendable resource to be exploited. We are fools for ascribing any degree of magnanimity to their actions.

WASHINGTON — President Trump says he wants to use military to secure US-Mexico border until wall is built, calls it ‘big step'.

I'll say

jade helm 16!

xxp was shocked to see that the article somehow isn't a Hamilton Nolan tirade

wants to use military to secure US-Mexico border

I'm sure this will go over big among the military.

I read some heavily 'liked' claptrap from a redhatter on FB last week about how [I paraphrase] the military should be moved from (west) coastal Blue sates to enforce the border while the wall is built, and if we get invaded and/or attacked on that coast, well, shame on them for voting for that woman. Now, how California--both a coastal and border state--fares in this, I don't know. Red Hat Logic I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

Forget North Korea, Iran etc, Trump's going to declare war on Mexico.

Trump tweeted "caravan" like 3 times today, did he learn a new word or something

― frogbs, Monday, April 2, 2018 11:43 PM (yesterday)

Should I even bother to look for whatever ridiculous story the caravan thing came from?

it rhymes with 'phlox snooze'

wants to use military to secure US-Mexico border

I'm sure this will go over big among the military.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is just an excuse for trying to divert money earmarked for DoD to built his stupid fucking wall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-caravan-of-migrants-thats-alarmed-president-trump-has-now-stalled/2018/04/03/534b01c2-36aa-11e8-af3c-2123715f78df_story.html?pwa=true&sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.1690fc8996eb

Some said they heard about this caravan through friends and relatives; others said they have made the trip in the past but weren’t allowed into the United States. The migrants said they had convened from several countries in Tapachula, a city along Mexico’s southern border, and begun their march north. A number of them said they were fleeing gang violence and extortion threats in their violence-plagued countries, while others said they were looking for better paying jobs.

Screw Mexico lets fight the canadans!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Bacon

the bourne conspiracy...

@realDonaldTrump
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I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P.O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!

can't believe Sears Roebuck got away with using the USPS as their delivery boy for so long.

please tell me he's talking about something other than a hilarious misunderstanding of what the "free shipping" button is

but i though bilking the government meant you were smart and should be commended.

I have no clue what these amazon USPS tweets mean. Does amazon have some sort of deal with the usps?

Nevermind, I see that this is just the daily insanity,

he is so fucking stupid

The Postal Service recorded a net loss of $5.6 billion in 2016, which it blamed on employee health-care costs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/29/trump-calls-for-u-s-postal-service-to-raise-amazons-shipping-rates/

he’s mad because he’s mad about the washington post reporting honestly on him. little dictator wannabe.

He is really the laziest troll in the world.

also from that piece

One of the Postal Service's biggest immediate obstacles to raising prices might be Trump. That's because the body that sets postal rates, the nine-member Postal Service Board of Governors, has only two serving members and lacks a quorum to make decisions. The board cannot raise rates without Trump nominating political appointees to fill the remaining slots, O'Rourke said.

“There is a level at which government operates that elected officials sometimes don't fully grasp,” O'Rourke said. “And this is true whether you're talking about USPS, the State Department or Interior. There are people four and five levels down who make the government of the United States work every day.”

I have no clue what these amazon USPS tweets mean. Does amazon have some sort of deal with the usps?

― Yerac, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:13 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The notion is that the USPS - a long-time anti-government right-wing bugbear championed in part by long-term GOP bigwig Fred Smith of FedEx - relies upon Amazon's business for its continued relative solvency.