At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

Heard "this is what he's best at, planning a show, he's a showman" on the news this morning. Ok, so shutting down Reagan International airport with military flyovers and threatening the structural integrity of the Lincoln memorial with "the latest" tanks from WWII is him at his best? Happy Birthday America.

i mean it probably is him at his best, or at least his most actively destructive - i'd much rather he spent all his energy on playing elaborate games with his military toys on home soil than building more concentration camps or glassing the middle east

his least actively destructive, i mean

At his best, this marketing genius calls an 80 year old tank the latest military technology, I mean, c'mon.

So this secret CBP FB group.

I just can't

no it's cool, the cbp have promised that 'any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable' so they'll probably suffer awful consequences up to and including paid leave

And being called "bad apples", the ignominy

weird how often people forget the 'spoils the whole bunch' part of that phrase huh

9,500 bad apples

and the rest of the CBP is prob just annoyed they weren't invited to the group

CPB looking like quite the accountable upstanding outfit with that and reports from members of Congress about the overall conditions and treatment from the officers on the border.

yeah but one of those members of congress used to be a bartender

good thing the senate are only approving an extra $4.59 billion for their efforts to humiliate, torture and murder asylum seekers

I have three people on FB who posted this idiot meme about how the border crisis is all the Dems fault because they won't approve more funds for toddler jail and man do I get heavy domestic violence "look what you MADE me do" vibes from it

these fucking monsters will whinge about how actually the camps were set up under obama or how the lack of toothbrushes or food or fresh water is down to budget problems all day every day and never think twice about actually changing things long past the point where the asylum seeker concentration camps have become overt death camps rather than the covert death camps they are now

good luck usa

Those apples gave me the shits for weeks, thank you mr grocer

I guess you can't expect better from the agency we send all our bastards, rapists and disgraced nobility

so apparently there are protests against the camps both today and Friday the 12th

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Tuesday said they had raised $105 million in the second quarter of this year, dwarfing what President Barack Obama raised in the equivalent period during his re-election campaign.

The campaign and the R.N.C. said they had a combined $100 million in cash on hand, and that they had raised more money online in the second quarter than in the first half of 2018. The staggering total figure can be plowed into television and digital advertising, get-out-the-vote efforts and other activities related to the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump and his committees raised $54 million, they said, and the R.N.C. raised $51 million. The campaign officials did not say how many individual donors had contributed, or how many gave money in increments of $200 or less. The official report, which will include spending, will be filed with the Federal Election Commission on July 15.

a spectre is haunting the republican national committee

the tax cuts are working!

money laundering for everyone

I will restate that border patrol and ICE applicants that I did background checks for 3 years on were by far the worst category of people that needed security clearances. All seemed to not be able to maintain jobs and their ex-spouses/other parent of child(s) all tried to avoid me interviewing them.

I don't really understand what campaign $$ does for Trump. Everyone knows about him. Everyone either loathes him or worships him.

They just want people to know he raised more money than Obama.

don't they lay out an obscene amount for Facebook ads?

someday i would like to hear about all the jobs yerac has had

don't they lay out an obscene amount for Facebook ads? Russian Hackers

Fixed.

House Ways & Means Com'tee suing to get the taxes btw

raging against the NY AG this morning hmmmm

Fuck you i won't tweet what you tell me

TANKS ON PARADE!!!!!!

Some of them that plan parades . . . are the same that stage raids.
Some of them that plan parades . . . are the same that stage raids.

yo it's time for raytheon

Why is it left to @AOC and @RashidaTlaib to do this? Where the hell are @SpeakerPelosi, @LeaderHoyer and @RepJeffries? Be useful or get out of the way– https://t.co/vZwgPi0mAN

— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) July 2, 2019

Pence had to cancel a trip to New Hampshire to return to the White House on basically no notice. The administration, which never ever lies and specifically never ever says the exact opposite of the truth, offered this answer to a question nobody had asked:

"This has absolutely nothing to do with the health" of @POTUS or @VP, a senior administration official tells @VOANews.

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) July 2, 2019

please naturally die

donnie's dying wish was to visit north korea

I wonder if two Asian women hugged him in the meeting room there...

could be the best 4th ever

I wonder if the Q Anon thing is finally going down

oppo dump, surely

before we all get too excited let us recall that you cannot kill what does not live

TRUMP CHUMP TAKES FATAL DUMP

The Trump White House is forever this tweet.

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

— Mike Ginn (@shutupmikeginn) November 21, 2013

Did Ivanka go with him

BREAKING: Office of the Inspector General releases new pictures of overcrowding at Border Patrol Facilities in TX. One senior manager calling this a “ticking time bomb.” #Immigration #ICE @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/bQdde1LYmB

— Gadi Schwartz (@GadiNBC) July 2, 2019

HUGE CENSUS NEWS — the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won.

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019

Here’s the email from DOJ pic.twitter.com/PdyfK0a1hJ

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019

?!

bout time

nice

"no wonder the Fat Sleepy Washington National Cathedral is losing Members!!"

As faith leaders who serve at Washington National Cathedral ¬– the sacred space where America gathers at moments of national significance – we feel compelled to ask: After two years of President Trump’s words and actions, when will Americans have enough?

took them seven months to get around to posting their reply

We all figured that, given time, he would eventually become presidential. I mean, really, who's to say he still won't someday.

Just hope this isn't what presidential comes to mean.
Really the most venal, like.
KIng of the heap etc etc

tbf if the president does something over a long enough period, it's presidential

if the president does it, it’s not illegal presidential

Secretary Eeegad felt the need to address Baltimore

Housing Secretary Ben Carson, the sole African American Cabinet secretary, directly injected himself into President Donald Trump’s attacks on a black congressman, holding a press conference Wednesday in the Democrat’s district and comparing Baltimore to a cancer patient wearing a “nice suit.”

He said the city has serious problems, including buildings with mold, lead and rodent infestation, which can cause serious health problems in children.

“You know, it’s sort of like if you have a patient who has cancer,” Carson said of Baltimore. “You can dress them up and put a nice suit on them, and you can try to ignore it. But that cancer is going to have a devastating effect. You have to be willing to address that issue if you’re ever going to solve it.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-injects-trumps-feud-dems-baltimore-press/story?id=64679253&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_hero_hed

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the principal Federal agency responsible for programs concerned with the Nation's housing needs, fair housing opportunities, and improvement and development of the Nation's communities.

first Ben has heard this

I've been thinking lately, as I've noticed a slight but undeniable decline in general effort and quality of work product at my job over the last couple of years (and I handle a lot of stuff coming from across the country and outside of our company so I feel like my assessment is based upon a decent sample size), that one approach to those who are still on the fence (perhaps because they don't think Trump-qua-Trump is awful enough to justify voting for the other team) is to ask them to consider the effect that another four years of his influence may have upon those people in your life upon whom your cush existence depends and who are maybe right on the tipping point of saying 'y'know, what's the worst that could happen if, like Teflon Don, I just stop trying?' If the ill-effects of his existence on other communities do absolutely nothing to tug at the cavity where your heart should be, consider how personally inconvenienced you will be as people stop giving a shit en masse. Just as he's reshaping the presidency, so too is he reshaping the populace to some extent. A country filled with iterations of Trump-lite benefits precisely no one.

Good post.

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