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

As opposed to some other regulars who post 100% garbage, reading this on mobile reminds me again why I use killfile.

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dang

Y'all --

Richard Lugar died, a bygone relic of an age of bipartisan contempt for liberals.

he always reminded me of those battery people in the old Duracell commercials

He always reminded me of the battery powered fake people in those Duracell commercials

oops sprry

not gen a fan of Lugar, but he did tell Reagan that his indifference to South African apartheid was no longer tenable

Knew it was too good to last.

don't be a Kamala, you dick

As opposed to some other regulars who post 100% garbage, reading this on mobile reminds me again why I use killfile.

kudos. it must be interesting to have no sense of irony. come back again sometime to congratulate yourself on how it's those other people who post garbage.

Serious question tlg, are you aware that not all teachers are independently wealthy?

good morning

Hey buddy, can you spare a dime? I know I messed up with #AnitaHill and a bunch of other stuff in the 100 years I’ve been in govt but I did say sorry to her even tho she doesn’t believe me. Whadaya say?? https://t.co/pSbAnYhi9s

— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) April 29, 2019

padma lakshmi,,, welcome to the #resistance

He didn’t actually say sorry, he said he was sorry it happened to her

dan i are you aware that i am not independently wealthy?

Oh cool, guess ur not the Stanford-educated dude who "doesn't technically have a trust fund" that I thought you were. I'll update the ol' jaymc.xls

wow dude

i am stanford educated: one year, cost $70k, almost paid off after 10 years.

i worked 9-5 on saturday, after my 45 hr regular workweek. made $500 cash. that’s my trust fund.

get a life

I got a life. What I don't have is any inter-generational capital.

good morning!

sorry dan i can’t hear you over the roar of my charter helicopter

I can't follow whose dick is out here.

dan i is measuring my unjustly inherited and very large dick, so he can chop it up and distribute it to the poor

where'd you get the charter helicopter, a charter school???

Robin Dick Hood

xp HA

Richard Hood III Charter Helicopter School

Dan I, protecting labor from the nefarious interests of poor starving children one ilx post at a time

yeah, the good old "won't somebody think of the children" argument, always deployed in perfectly good faith

at least it's already the 29th, maybe you guys will have this all out of your system in time for the May thread.

one to watch imo. she should take feinstein's senate seat when feinstein is done doing nothing with it.

During my questioning, @jpmorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he didn’t know if all my numbers were accurate. Here’s the math so he can check. pic.twitter.com/OIDkrWfASC

— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) April 10, 2019

yeah everything I've seen of her is super impressive. she's smart and doesn't give a fuck about confrontation with these assholes.

love her

she's very good

Rosenstein out

thanks for your hard work shitstain

Interesting piece on how the NRA's implosion could impact 2020.

The NRA played a big, big role in the 2016 election for Donald Trump, spending dramatically more than it had in previous elections. Part of that pivotal role was tied to the fact that the Trump campaign proper had little ground operation for the general election. The NRA basically supplied one. The organization spent $30 million supporting Donald Trump and over $55 million in total, according to formal reporting. These numbers have escalated dramatically over the last four election cycles. But the actual spending was likely far higher since a lot of its field organizing work doesn’t have to be reported.

It’s hard to imagine, as the incumbent, that Trump’s campaign will be similarly unprepared for 2020. But the NRA is still a critical part of the GOP’s coalitional apparatus. Between financial woes and serious legal problems, it’s hard to imagine they won’t be seriously distracted and hobbled through 2020 in parts of the country that are critical for President Trump’s reelection.

afaict the trump 2020 plan is to bet even more on facebook ads targetting old people in swing states. it's not a terrible plan, and it doesn't need the NRA.

maybe we can blow up facebook before 2020

Rod Rosenstein resigning effective 5/11. A recent exchange I had with him:

Me: You quoted Donald Trump on respecting the rule of law. Seriously?
RR: It was a good quote.
Me: Do you think he believed it?
RR: [Pause]
Me: Do you?
RR: Those were good words.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 29, 2019

"Those Were Good Words" for May title.

"Both" "sides" in the NRA dispute are 100% pro-Trump, so I am not seeing how their internal turmoil could alter the electoral picture, sorry.

yeah, the good old "won't somebody think of the children" argument, always deployed in perfectly good faith

― Dan I., Monday, April 29, 2019 9:37 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh in this case it's children going without meals, not some bogus moralizing. what bad faith argument do you think is being advanced here exactly?

Teachers need to organize to survive, and organization involves potentially striking. This is obvious to teachers who rely on their jobs for their survival. I’m fucking incredulous that anyone is taking this “kids starve if teachers strike” bourgeois concern trolling bullshit seriously. How many levels of false consciousness are you dorks on

ftr, there are millions of children eating both free breakfast and free lunch at public schools these days, because there are millions of children living in households below the poverty level.

That’s true, and as mentioned upthread one of the things that teachers unions work to preserve

The Baylor University women's basketball team were apparently dragged to the White House today...they look super excited in this photo.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5WQVoZXkAENXj1.jpg:large

that is...wow

hahaha oh man.

there are pictures of the coach grimacing at the fast food too

that's an amazing photograph