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

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

one of Britain's top diplomats, used secret cables and briefing notes to impugn Trump's character, warning London that the White House was 'uniquely dysfunctional' and that the President's career could end in 'disgrace'

As I hear it, the US has a very special, close relationship with Great Britain. And yes, I can see the family resemblance.

Britain's Ambassador to Washington has described Donald Trump as 'inept', 'insecure' and 'incompetent' in a series of explosive memos to Downing Street.

Are there any countries with ambassadors who aren't saying this?

not sure where else to put this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source

Christine Pelosi made a weird tweet about that

This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may - whether on Republicans or Democrats. #WeSaidEnough #MeToo https://t.co/2mvskwQwW1

— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) July 7, 2019

“some of our faves”

🤔

our increasingly problematic faves

That’s going to need it’s own thread

Too early for next month's thread title?

faves like Bill Clinton and Dersh

Andrew, the sixth-favourite Prince.

Naomi Campbell’s in there too - she seems to have turned over a new leaf in the last five years so...

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In a new book, Trump claims that he foresaw AOC's political rise. Of course it's bullshit from beginning to end. The only interesting things about this story are a) Trump's bottomless thirstiness, and b) that the ads for Evita, inescapable on NY local TV in the late 70s and early 80s, are still stuck in Trump's senile brain 40 years later.

have to assume Pelosi is talking about Clinton there. Which isn't surprising but is still disappointing and as happy as I am to see this Epstein stuff coming to a head it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy nonsense that wound up involving that Pizza place.

yeah this is undoubtedly being read as a win by the q folks but I'll be fucked before I go anywhere online to confirm that

Nance says

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got. If the left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it. As I say to these people, come to my basement. I have these signs about single-payer from 30 years ago. I understand what they’re saying. But we have a responsibility to get something done, which is different from advocacy. We have to have a solution, not just a Twitter fight.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/nancy-pelosi-pride-parade.html

have to assume [Christine] Pelosi is talking about Clinton there. Which isn't surprising but is still disappointing and as happy as I am to see this Epstein stuff coming to a head it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy nonsense that wound up involving that Pizza place.

― akm, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:21 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this is undoubtedly being read as a win by the q folks but I'll be fucked before I go anywhere online to confirm that

― gbx, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:23 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait...having not followed pizzagate that much. are you saying that the epstein stuff is connected to whatever the Q people thought about pizzagate? epstein is a billionaire so i assume he knows the clintons well - is that the connection, or is there more to it? completely tuned that stuff out a long time ago so i have no clue

Air Fuck One?

Bill Clinton is known to have flown on Epstein's plane. That's about it, but that's enough to add seasoning to the q-anon stuff.

clinton though hasn't been explicitly named or accused by anyone, the way Prince Andrew and Dershowitz have been.

it's also unsettling that some of this is the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy

so by this you meant it's unsettling that some of this ^will be viewed as^ the root of the child trafficking online conspiracy, ^by the same people who are crazy^

ok, i'm going to completely tune that stuff out again

As I say to these people, come to my basement.

As catchphrases go this needs work.