US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'

stephen miller has been hanging around for centuries, in belfries, attics, the branches of dead trees

strange fruit

everything is going to be just fine

https://youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?t=75

https://youtu.be/tP8LysGrO1c

I heard that Kirsten Nielsen had gone but not that trump was now going back and doubling down on the family separation policy that I had hoped was a thing of the past.
Just extrapolating, but is he believing his own stooge dervied press where a suppressed report and a refusal to hand over tax returns have meant that he truly is exonerated. Really hoping that pride comes before a fall but that's true of the last 2 years with him.

Point also being that exoneration meant universal support or any and all restrictions to what he wanted done removed.
So headspace must be even closer to megalomania.
Not that he was healthy before but seems like he's totally flipped now.

Just extrapolating, but is he believing Stephen Miller? Yes.

this is not as huge as things generally discussed here, but still pretty fucked

New: Congress is about to *make it illegal* for the government to offer free online tax filing. Thank TurboTax. https://t.co/r2PuLM9lML

— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) April 9, 2019

infuriating

goodness this Barr is an arrogant prick

good guy kris kobach is finally getting his reward

NEW: Kris Kobach said Tuesday he is eager to become @realDonaldTrump's Homeland Security secretary & confirmed he's been in communication w/ White House. https://t.co/YHtvFgj0CD @dcexaminer

— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) April 9, 2019

Or...or...he could crawl into a cave and die

seems like the right guy to head up new dismemberment and child-eating programs

he already knows how to break laws, which is practically written into the job description

I hope Stephen Miller has an aneurysm

Wait, you guys cant lodge your tax returns online via a govt website? That should be the ONLY way you can do it! Geesh they force everyone onto the fucking "eGov" website in this country.

Idiot behaves idiotically.

This piece has the tone of something that would have run in the Washington Post in the early 90s when they were all about pointing out what rubes the Clintons were.

And despite his criticisms, Trump found something to like at Mount Vernon, too. Among the artifacts preserved there is the bed where Washington passed away from a throat infection in 1799. Trump, who is infamously picky about where he sleeps and resists spending nights away from home, felt out the bedpost and told the Macrons and Bradburn that he approved, according to three people briefed on the event.

"A good bed to die in,” Trump said.

don't let us stop you buddy, go right ahead

That piece reads like a parody.

xxp idgi, this doesn't highlight his taste or provincialism, it goes after his stupidity and incuriosity

caught a minute of a pod talking about how the dismissal of nielsen means by statute the deputy is the new director, the admin didnt plan for that and announced the “new director,” leaving nielsen’s final act to be dismissal of her backup. Dunno if that’s how it’ll play out or be styled.

Meanwhile everyone’s walking around like it’s a fucking commercial, i hate these days.

Heard that re Nielsen. & the person went onto joke about the person she fired having to fire somebody as she herself left.

Also hearing that the idea of leaving every official position being filled by an acting official may be as much tactic as mistake.
& it all meaning there would be less actual resistance to any policy trump tried to introduce.

“I don’t know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion” on obstruction, Barr says.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 10, 2019

boy the media really nailed it with their "TRUMP FOUND INNOCENT OF ALL WRONGDOING" headlines

Poor Mueller. The only guy who read his 400 page manuscript didn't really understand it.

"A Good Bed to Die In" has to be next thread title

"I am concerned about it," Barr says of spying on the Trump campaign in 2016. "There might be abuses that don't rise to the level of a crime."

He declined to explain the basis for his concern about spying in 2016.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 10, 2019

This Barr seems a traet

I am reluctantly coming to think that the only way for Dems to win is to get their own WWE-style candidate with about five talking points repeated ad naseum, together with plenty of the bombast and name calling. There is so much noise these days, I am not sure the principled reasoned candidate.

Someone talk me off the ledge, please.

*can win*

I am reluctantly coming to think that the only way for Dems to win is to get their own WWE-style candidate with about five talking points repeated ad naseum, together with plenty of the bombast and name calling

Bernie has been pretty popular for years

(I'm all for Warren switching her policy messaging to "EAT THE RICH. EAT THE RICH." if it will mean she wins)

I think the repubs tried and true “cut taxes/less government” is such a concise message for low information voters to rally around over anything the dems can offer.

funny how Republicans sell their own "less government" message by being absolute shit at it every time they get power

its like a 12 year old intentionally doing a poor job mowing the lawn so he doesn't get asked to do it anymore

Yeah, for the majority of voters “cut taxes/less government” is much more viscerally appealing than "liberty and justice for all".

more like "access to liberty and justice for those who are willing to work hard and play by the rules"

caught a minute of a pod talking about how the dismissal of nielsen means by statute the deputy is the new director, the admin didnt plan for that and announced the “new director,” leaving nielsen’s final act to be dismissal of her backup. Dunno if that’s how it’ll play out or be styled.

The deputy resigned yesterday.

Lucky for us the security apparatus doesn’t need a “head” to function :O)

Bernie has been pretty popular for years

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 1:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(I'm all for Warren switching her policy messaging to "EAT THE RICH. EAT THE RICH." if it will mean she wins)

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 1:43 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These two posts were almost exactly what I had in mind. Like maybe Dems just need to stop being adults and start slinging mud like the rest of the children.

why though? like are these fucking imbeciles just going to be like ok i like libruls now

This my cynicism speaking, but maybe because taking the high(er) road isn't doing us a whole lot of fucking good either?

I mean, I don't want the Dems to dive into the mud pool either, but I'm in one of my periodic "nothing matters anyway" moods. It's just exhausting hoping something might one day be even marginally less terrible.

why though? like are these fucking imbeciles just going to be like ok i like libruls now

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably not, but maybe these imbeciles would be like ok I hate rich people, which might be a start.

lol they think they are going to be the rich people as soon as they hit that lotto

President Trump is moving to dismantle the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

love to hear what tombot thinks of this

lol they think they are going to be the rich people as soon as they hit that lotto

the message of socialism needs to be "everyone can have the same financial security as a one-million-aire" not "Bernie isn't a hypocrite for writing a book"

sic OTMFM!

Question :

If Hilary stood against Trump.

Would the people who voted for her, go "nah, I'll vote trump this time"?

Probably very few. So, the implication is there would be more switching the other way.

Then again, would people say "ah, I don't think I'll bother voting this time"?

So, the

how on earth is one even faintly implied by the other

also how is this question useful after 29 months of litigating this issue daily in these threads

might be just the break in the case we need

If Barr is back to exploring the 9dea of spying on the 2016 Trump campaign is he far from launching a further investigation into Hilary Clinton.
& that after like half the trump cabinet has been outed conducting official business on private communication devices.

Trump knows what's in the Mueller report. His sudden push to control the IRS and investigate the FBI may be his way of helping Barr justify the censorship of the report that the attorney general is going to let the senate judiciary committee see. Another normal day.

Would it be empowering for Trump/counterintuitive for the dems to begin a discussion of what to do in the even of Trump losing in 2020 but refusing to relinquish the WH?