no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

'differently focused'

'otherly stupid'

So "Don't meddle in the election, please" is July's title, right?

In other news:

Peter Baker asks Trump if he agrees with Putin about demise of "Western-style liberalism." Trump then criticizes LA and SF run which are "sad to look at" because they are run by "liberal people" ... which was not the question.

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 29, 2019

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-Putin-Western-liberalism-San-Francisco-G20-14060892.php

"At the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, US President Donald Trump was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Western-style liberalism was becoming "obsolete."

By "Western-style liberalism," Putin was referring to the political ideology common in Western countries that emphasizes democracy, market economies, and individual liberty.

When asked about Putin's comments by a reporter, Trump appeared to think Putin was referring to liberals on the West Coast of the United States.

"If you look at what's happening in Los Angeles...San Francisco...(cities) run by a group of liberal people," Trump said."

....

:When asked specifically about Biden's past stances on busing, Trump appeared to think the controversy was around the mode of transportation itself, and not school desegregation.

"It has been something that they've done for a long period of time," Trump said. "There aren't that many ways of getting people to schools."

the worst part about trying to reason with an inanimate object is when they win the 2016 election by negative 2 points

wow that busing response is better than any parody

But ask him how moving the time slot for The Apprentice to a later hour might have changed its Nielsen ratings and ad revenue, because its demographics skewed toward groups like old people and school kids who went to bed early, and he would have come up with several suggestions about tweaking the format to appeal more to 34-45 year olds, and could explain why shifting to a different night of the week might reduce the ratings losses.

I hate that this is the timeline I wound up in. I just hate it.

Trump giving speech from Lincoln Memorial steps before fireworks and military flyovers was bad enough, but now of course they’re creating special ticketed only access area for his pals there. I had gone to DC fireworks the last few years, but gonna skip this. Code Pink Group is trying to get permission to fly baby T balloon. I doubt they’ll get approval

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-plans-ticketed-access-area-for-vips-friends-and-family-at-july-4-celebration/2019/06/28/005fd56a-99a4-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html

Trump appeared to think

bullshit

gah, I wish the DC 4th fireworks were not awesome so that people would just stay home, but there will be crowds and there will be crowing.

maybe he'll lose an eye or a finger

Maybe somebody already linked this?

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/29/concentration-camps-border-detention/

good afternoon!

so Yam met Kim at the NK border and thanked him for not making him "look bad"

the new press secy got bruised in a security kerfuffle

Amazing video of @IvankaTrump trying to butt in to actual world leaders’ conversation and their unconcealable irritation. pic.twitter.com/WuZfWpQpgA

— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) June 30, 2019

there is one alternate universe out of billions where ivanka is a really cool and nice person despite her upbringing, and i feel sorry for her because she's placed in these insane situations where she has be around political leaders and pretend like she belongs. must be excruciating for her, in that alternative universe. in this one, though, she fakes it til she makes it and later is like 'i architected the fuck out of that greet and meet, j kush'

i guess she'll just have to settle for this universe, where she's smoking hot and her dad is the president :(

Time4FiftyOne

esby's not so much out-of-bounds as just annoying and inane. it would be like killing a flea.

annoying and inane

Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".

go screw, you dusty farmer's almanac

Let he who is without sin

/annoying and inane/

Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".

tbh yes they probably are just tolerating her in that video, and she does look awkward but this feels a lot like when we try to pretend Trump is "obviously miserable" in a picture where really he's just winding up for a sneeze or something.

esby = SB, do you see? He's askin' for it!

whatever happened to that guy ephpea?

Ahh good old Ephraim P Gilbert

wow i didn't know that the June 2019 politics thread was nasty

It's like esby is Paul Pierce's ass and we're all Michelle Beadle

One of these men is 5'7". The other claims to be 6'3".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-VIDAcWsAErVwy.jpg

wgas

Kim's on a hoverboard made of bones.

vaguely let down that kim wasn’t like ‘sure, i’ll meet you in the dmz. . . with an artillery shell’

Trump is tall
Kim wears lifts
jpg: who gives a shit

bc it’s funny to imagine the negotiations— sure, you can stand on a box, but you still have to be two inches shorter

i mean the thing he hates most about comey is having to look up at him

it's amazing to me that trump insulting the prince's wife before his visit to britain was only a month ago! the history of this era is gonna have to be like 48 volumes

Trump is good at headline-making, but he is rarely history-making.

Trump insulted the prince’s wife?
Finally something positive about him

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/donald-trump-meghan-markle-nasty-boris-johnson-good-prime-minister/index.html
who's gonna do july

I don't know how safe for work the title has to be, but "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t" would be good.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t. https://t.co/9YpgVF7qEP

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) June 30, 2019

Fox used to rage about Obama being willing to meet with NK without preconditions. Trump goes for a photo op and he's a fuckin genius.

😐 pic.twitter.com/A8MM7Cxzf1

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) June 30, 2019

I don't know how safe for work the title has to be, but "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t" would be good.

yeah, I was going to suggest "You know, there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools" but this is much better.