US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

the world is so fucking dumb I pray for death every single minute

I get you, but think of the inexhaustible smugness you can still derive from knowing you're not one of them. Helps you cope.

trump looked into kayne's eyes and saw his tv channel. i mean, soul

some of his plastic still say kayne's soul

Citizen.

love that the president shrugged off the murder and dismemberment of a dissident saudi journalist by claiming 'we sell them 110b worth of weapons my hands are tied'

lmao Kanye's iPhone password is 000000 pic.twitter.com/mEM5Tjq0po

— Del Slappo (@misterjamo) October 11, 2018

so kanye says he was misdiagnosed with bipolar now?

“If you’re building a floor — the Constitution is the base of our industry, of our country, of our company, right?” he said. “Would you build a trap door that if you mess up, and you accidentally — something happens, you fall and you end up next to the Unabomber? You gotta remove all that trap door out of the relationship. The four gentleman that wrote the 13th Amendment — and I think the way the universe works, it’s perfect! We don’t have 13 floors.”

What the fuck

You'll have to tell me which of those clowns said that, because I can't tell.

i assume that was kanye

Kanye. I think he sounds mentally ill and pretty different than he did years ago.

Kind of Trump like.

yes but trump isn’t currently fixated on the 13th amendment

this country is so fucking stupid

yes but trump isn’t currently fixated on the 13th amendment

Roky Erickson then.

welp I guess anti-intellectualism won out in USA, g night folks

i've always thought that trump was literally the worst person who could ever possibly be president. and by 'possibly' i mean that there's a chance that the people of the united states would actually vote for him, just because they've heard of him and he's on tv. but kanye might actually be worse, somehow

Ye / Trump Jr. 2024

Kanye has no fucking idea what the fuck he is talking about at all. yet he gets this fucking stupid fuck platform to babble to other idiots that nod their heads in agreement . i hate this shit

It's literally just an ego stroke for Trump. Someone is talking to him as if his opinion matters, as if he were a worthy vessel for such profound insights. Kanye could have been delivering little more than a stream of disconnected phonemes and Trump would've been honored to have been the recipient of those phonemes.

I mean obviously it works both ways. Can't we just lock them both in a room and let them overinflate the other's ego until they cease to exist?

We're at low point # what again?

#nogooddays

crossposting

"The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!" pic.twitter.com/iqmKxHVVSr

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 11, 2018

(not sure Paddy Chayefsky could've come up with this shit)

"I love Hillary. I love everyone. But the campaign ‘I’m With Her’ just didn’t make me feel, as a guy that didn’t get to see his dad all the time, like a guy who could play catch with his son. There was something about when I put this hat on that made me feel like Superman. That’s my favorite superhero. You made a Superman cape for me.”

spelling it out. need it spelled out? here it is, spelled out

You'll have to tell me which of those clowns said that, because I can't tell.

um do you really think that Trump knows of any amendments besides the first two and *maybe* the 25th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpZI9it2rJM

tapped out at about the two minute mark of Kanye's deal, how sad & embarrassing & awful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45826875
Mr Trump was asked by a journalist if West could be a future presidential candidate, and the president replied: "Could very well be."

Air Force Won’t Say Whether It Will Replace Air Force One With Kanye’s Hydrogen-Powered iPlane via @TaskandPurpose https://t.co/kHcyy8nmf9

— Jeff Schogol (@JeffSchogol) October 11, 2018

This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) January 20, 2017

i've been reading through perlstein's latest, Invisible Bridge, which is about how the U.S. shifted from nixon to reagan during the 70s. like nixonland, it's full of all sorts of wonderful and disturbing anecdotes and long forgotten scandals of the day. while reading Nixonland, though, i often found myself thinking "well, at least things haven't gotten THAT bad today". part of that was because i was reading it before trump, and part of it was that the 60s were full of a lot of political violence that i have trouble imagining, even now. the experience of reading Invisible Bridge is different, though. feels like everything is much, much worse and much dumber than the 70s. that's my review of the trump era so far: less violent than the 60s, so much dumber than ever before

Stupidest day in US history since yesterday.

ITEM!

https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-becomes-democrat-a73c59a5-2000-4f8f-b4d5-29d66deda15c.html

Why isnt trump in jail yet

Im ready for the next era. This era sucks

Treesh

xxxp Better to be a Democrat in prison than a Republican in Hell.

well you don't have long to wait, a mere 12 years as it turns out.

angling for 2020?

I was thinking of the UN climate report

C/D: Rick Perlstein

xp, lol karl your view of nixonland is correct imo.

The relentlessness of this shit is just beating down my already compromised level-best attempt to find small joys in day-to-day life.

The undertow wins. It's not even about paying attention to the news anymore. Tune it out, don't tune it out, it's irrelevant to the extent that this pervasive sense of dread is moving like a contagion between any two people with a conscience.

And also my baseball team lost.

makes me long for the days when Poppy Bush had KRS-One and Paris in the Oval

KRS is a Ron Paul supporter iirc

I find this stuff easier to bear (and tune out) than last week. My blood pressure's normal again!

not sure if Morbs is referring to Bush Killa or misremembering proud capitalist exploiter Eazy-E paying $80k to have dinner at a White House function for business owners

yeah carne, i know he lost the plot

just makin dumb joke

also in the white house today, separately from the kanye event: kid rock, mike love + weirdos

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed musicians Kid Rock and country star John Rich to the White House on Thursday as he signed legislation overhauling the way music is licensed and songwriters compensated.

Trump signed the Orrin B. Hatch Music Modernization Act on Thursday. The bill won wide bipartisan support in the House and Senate and is backed by the music industry. It’s named after the retiring Utah senator, who is also a musician.

Also joining the president were Mike Love of the Beach Boys, singer Sam Moore and the Christian group MercyMe.

The legislation creates a new independent entity that will license songs to companies that play music online.

The nonprofit collective will then pay songwriters, including those who wrote pre-1970s classics before music copyrights protected their work.