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

the best case scenario is that this ends with trump angrily firing wilbur ross for letting him down or whatever

there are a lot of bad scenarios. hopefully tucker carlson can talk some sense into him

(^^^I MEAN, HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THIS UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW^^^

https://www.soundboard.com/sb/Boing_Sound_Board

Democratic source says @MelindaKatz is AHEAD of @CabanForQueens by 20 votes.

Final count has now been completed, including absentee ballots and affidavits.

This will likely trigger a full recount.

— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) July 4, 2019

Hoping for rain and thunderstorms in DC tonight

that one republican guy who supports impeachment (Rep. Justin Amash - MI) has left the republican party.

In a Washington Post op-ed that scorned Democrats and Republicans alike, Amash lamented a broken two-party system and a Congress that exists “as little more than a formality to legitimize outcomes dictated by the president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader.”

“We owe it to future generations to stand up for our constitutional republic so that Americans may continue to live free for centuries to come,” he said. “Preserving liberty means telling the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that we’ll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense.”

both sides

dude is a horrible libertarian

Have you ever met a good one???

Happy 4th btw.

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Let's try that again:

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Just gonna paste the link then:

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Hoping for rain and thunderstorms in DC tonight

Dark clouds over the Mall right now. Last forecast I saw called for thunderstorms around 6pm.

osita is following trump's big party, good thread and i imagine it will get better and better

Posted up along the Reflecting Pool for Trump's event. It's 90° and this thing doesn't start until the evening. But some folks are already here. pic.twitter.com/DgW2bKKsjv

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) July 4, 2019

President Lincoln has arrived at the Mall with a rap about Jesus Christ. pic.twitter.com/YpLxb1S4PJ

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) July 4, 2019

It's 90° and this thing doesn't start until the evening. But some folks are already here.

this is happening at fireworks displays all across America tbf

they should allow people to swim in the reflecting pool

Folks this is not an autocracy this is a small time car dealership owner having a party with his buddies and offering test drives https://t.co/H3Dfwqj1zM

— 12 Russians in a spring 🌸 trenchcoat (@HorridHenryVIII) July 4, 2019

So, are they going to parade or just be there for the in-crowd to ogle?
Possibly cause less damage if they do remain stationary iof course.
But how would t get his macho display.

they should allow people to swim in the reflecting pool
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, July 4, 2019 2:04 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/VQJ7Jrw.jpg

v cool of dan crenshaw to cosplay as the villain from last action hero for independence day

pic.twitter.com/SE3g5QCiIJ

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 4, 2019

today at 2 pm eastern we find out whether they're really going to try to add the citizenship census question or not

just wanted to kick off today's posts with a seismic piece of info

“There must be a million of us,” said Ron Beauchemin, 53, hyperbolizing as he swept his eyes over the crowd streaming through security, and lined up 90 deep at a nearby hot-dog stand.

Mr. Beauchemin and his wife, Crystal, 56, who own a moving business, had come up from Sarasota, Fla., for the weekend, accompanied by Darlene Izzo, a 53-year-old accountant from Sanibel Island, whom they had met at a Trump rally.

“God sent Darlene to me,” Ms. Beauchemin said. The group had chipped in on a $25 Chick-fil-A gift card for Mr. Trump, and planned to deliver it during a White House tour they had booked for Friday. “He likes burgers and fast food,” Mr. Beauchemin said.

“I have three sons in the Marines, and I wanted to bring my grandchildren to the White House,” Ms. Beauchemin said. But she left them at home, afraid of anti-Trump demonstrators “hitting people with crowbars and throwing cement on them,” she said.

hey everyone i heard there's a PARTY AT THE BEAUCHEMINS ON SATURDAY

let us head to the july 4 salute to expensive airplanes while our grandchildren fight the anarcho-communists who hitting people with crowbars and throwing cement. come, spouse. let us print out our chick-fil-A gift card we bought for the president at Kinkos before we begin the drive north to the rally

I'm going to Sanibel in two weeks! I'll hit Darlene up.

god sent Darlene to me because of my good political views. we are gonna fuck all night

see, these Trump people aren't salt of the earth working class. they own moving businesses, and snowmobile dealerships, and have huge new F-350s

xp you leave Darlene alone, god sent her to me

i know what i'm going to find when i see the bi-monthly 'NYT talks to trump dumbasses' article, but i still click it every time

Seems to me that a $25 gift card is a pretty cheap-ass gift for a billionaire.

One of the reasons Florida is less purple is thanks to Midwestern transplants like Darlene who've moved to the Gulf coast with their god and Chik-Fil-A.

he's just gonna regift that thing to some rose bowl winner or whatever

My mom sold up her place in Fort Myers Beach because although she votes Republican, she loathed having this type of person for neighbours (the activity room in the condo was full of shit books by authors on wingnut welfare). The last straw for her was watching some 80-year-old snowbird hurl abuse at a Vietnamese nail bar technician administering a pedicure for having the audacity to ask the customer to move her feet just so. My mom believes a lot of Fox News bullshit and definitely says racist things every time I talk to her but she totally called this woman out as a racist in front of the entire salon.

wow!

Whatever else is going on with my mom, she spits nails if she sees customers disrespecting those who serve them.

Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience.

i invite you all to drive into central missouri.

actually, don't do that

xp LOOOOOOOL did that drive every year when I was little, bet it’s even worse now.

trump on the idea of using an executive order for the census question:

“We’re thinking about doing that. It’s one of the ways — we have four or five ways we can do it,” he said. “We’re thinking of doing it very seriously. We’re doing well on the census.”

we'll have to see

many people are saying

*loud helicopter noise*

After 4 years in the first job he ever applied for, Trump still wouldn't be able to pass a civics exam.

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"look, I'm not a heartless racist conservative, but I don't think we should even think about the conditions illegal immigrants endure during detention when there's so many American citizens who are suffering from homelessness. why should people from another country be given living conditions that are better than those of our own citizens??"

hmmm ok so you think our tax dollars should be redirected towards ending poverty and homelessness?

"lol oh hell no, those lazy fuckers deserve to be poor"

Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, July 5, 2019 10:40 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My Florida drive historically has been from the Georgia border (I-75) to Daytona or the Space Coast. Some real
Deep South shit round there. And so many pro life billboards by the interstate.

so many pro life anti-abortion billboards by the interstate

ftfy

thanks Aimless

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/

"Driving north on I-75 from Naples to Tampa is a harrowing experience."

I75 aka Pillbilly Highway

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html