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

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

those border patrol custody pictures are very disturbing

they’re absolutely fucking disgusting

these people are being locked up in these utterly inhuman conditions for committing a misdemeanor

A misdemeanor that used to be handled as a civil matter and not criminal.

As I’ve said previously, the opposing nominee’s campaign should consult with a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to figure out how to do precisely this. It shouldn’t be too hard to trigger the final meltdown. https://t.co/EaAzGFoCef

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 2, 2019

once again, there must be some interesting dinners at the Conway residence.

Their life's work is to engage with bullshit like nothing matters, so I'm guessing dinner with them would be both boring and dispiriting.

lack of civility strikes again

I have informed the HKennedy Sch that I am turning down its offer as Snr Res Fellow. It would have been exciting to share my experiences, both positive and negative; our current political environment and its lack of civility makes this too disruptive. I wish them the best.

— Rick Snyder (@onetoughnerd) July 3, 2019

“it’s not that i was derelict, it’s the MEANIES”

i feel like the only just way to offer rick snyder a job is to stipulate in his contract that the only thing he's allowed to drink, use in the bathroom, or swim in at company retreats is poisoned water from flint (outside water strictly prohibited, a violation of which results in immediate termination or guillotine)

The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or, to state it differently, FAKE! We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2019

lol wut ? so what is that department email up there ? FAKE NEWSES

the confusion is infuriating because at some level, that's exactly the point - attack the media at every opportunity in order to destroy trust. usually, the Fake News thing quickly splits everyone into camps of truth, depending on whether the news consumer thinks that Fox/Breitbart are legitimate news organizations or not. but in situations like this, the truth itself becomes muddy. it may very well be true that trump is still pushing for the citizenship question. he may have made one decision one day and another decision the next. he could have changed his mind. he could be just straight up lying, again.

it all gets tossed into the brew of confusion

he also takes obvious delight in heightened ability to change some facts at his whim, as president. he can see a truthful news account from an organization that doesn't like, and then change things behind the scenes so that the story is different, even in a deeply misleading way, then go on the attack about the Fake News getting it wrong.

But hey Kaepernick hates flag sneakers

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/soros-koch-anti-war-quincy-institute.html

he could have changed be out of his mind.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pocahontas TM 43ppl issues: Pres Trump Kavanaugh confirmation small refinery waivers tariffs USMCA rural health care electoral college min wage drug prices shld b on tv ads big tech Medicare climate change robocalls ethanol/e15 yr round <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/99CountyMeeetings?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#99CountyMeeetings</a></p>— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="

Pocahontas TM 43ppl issues: Pres Trump Kavanaugh confirmation small refinery waivers tariffs USMCA rural health care electoral college min wage drug prices shld b on tv ads big tech Medicare climate change robocalls ethanol/e15 yr round #99CountyMeeetings

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 3, 2019

is that English