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

They could use a quick little summary of cryotocurrency

Walt Disney doesn't get a vote

Literally the only vocal trump voter I know is also a crypto person. Looking forward to hearing his reaction

you won't believe it but Trump tweeted negative stuff about Paul Ryan! Called him a failure.

trump otm

Acosta gone, in the least surprising resignation ever. Now he should be disbarred, and possibly also charged with criminal conduct.

Good riddance. https://t.co/vjTQCQsDzV

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) July 12, 2019

lolol

As soon as MSNBC ran a clip yesterday of "Judge" Andrew Napolitano on FOX announcing that Acosta would be gone by Friday I knew his days were numbered.

Trump on Acosta: "He's a tremendous talent. He's a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

very normal brain

"He's done a fantastic job. He's a friend of everybody in the administration," Trump began their appearance. He said Acosta "did a fantastic job yesterday" in the press conference, which happened two days ago.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

Trump fired him because he wasn't being conservative i.e. mean enough as labor secretary.

"Why haven't you deported labor yet?"

the normalist

Trump says getting citizenship information through government data will be "actually more accurate than a Census." Asked if he backed down, he said not only did he not back down, "I backed UP."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2019

he backed that azz up

Asked if his time in office was anything more than a series of major fuck-ups, President Trump retorted that 'it's been a series of minor fuck-DOWNS,' followed by staring into the middle distance and muttering in a barely-audible tone, 'I'm a big boy, a big boy'

“So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad, to me that’s very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech.”

Maggie Haberman makes me want to scream so much

Trump, who used to use a specific phrase with aides to describe Epstein’s island, says this to reporters this AM, via @anniekarni: “His Island, whatever this island was, wherever it is, I was never there. Find out the people that went to the island.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 12, 2019

Apparently its "Pedo Island" but for some reason she has to use code.

the NYT: always discreet except when ginning up wars

Acosta becomes the 13th Cabinet member to depart the Trump administration. By this time in the Obama admin, none had left. In the George W. Bush admin at this point, one had departed. pic.twitter.com/Uzi5uXeG5q

— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) July 12, 2019

And there's a 14th coming soon - apparently Trump wants to push Dan Coats out.

Thread: @ManhattanDA @CyVance Jr. is the Forrest Gump/Roy Cohn/Tom Hagen/Don Jr of the Trump era:
1. Protected Ivanka & Don Jr
2. Protected Harvey Weinstein
3. *Protected Jeffrey Epstein.*
4. But overzealously prosecutes poor/ mass incarcerates.
5. And is botching Manafort case https://t.co/8ttCw2pq3i

— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) July 9, 2019

can't read his name without picturing powers boothe's character in deadwood.

at least that bizarro stunt produced some high-quality Vic

Mr. Trump took to the podium today to NOT complain about losing followers on social media.

If you like my videos and want to support what I do, check out my Patreon: https://t.co/sQPiRk8jyD pic.twitter.com/OTpAMJDv4i

— Pastor Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) July 12, 2019

Yes, but only those most deserving. pic.twitter.com/l3kI5Gjx8F

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 12, 2019

glad that jesus and/or socialism is saving alex in nyc

so in this analogy Jesus is Socialism and heroin is heroin?

millions now living free will never die hard

There’s not enough arms in that picture. Why is that guy injecting Jesus with heroin?

Because it’s part of God’s plan, duh

Jesus is accepting onto himself the burden of that poor man's sins. It's just part of the confused mixture of symbolism and literalism that suffuses fundamentalist theology.

VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.) pic.twitter.com/tHFZYxJF7C

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 12, 2019

the picture with pence and those cages is some odious shit

really

I'm sure that deeply held Christianity will kick in any day now.

can't wait for marco's next scripture tweet

Tracy Nuetzi, a white Trump voter in Florida, got caught up by ICE and was mislabeled an immigrant. She spent nearly a year trying to prove she was a US citizen and says no one should be treated like she was. But she plans to vote for Trump again in 2020. https://t.co/bZ1hJnib6p

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 12, 2019

Tracy, we have a Darwin Award with your name pre-engraved, whenever you're ready to, y'know, do whatever final thing it is that you'll inevitably do.

a credit to citizenship

She spent nearly a year trying to prove she was a US citizen

Sure, she tried to prove it, but I have my lingering doubts and I feel like until she's succeeded in proving it past all doubts and to everyone's complete satisfaction, she should not be allowed to vote, because we all know how much fraudulent voting is being done by non-citizens these days and its ruining our precious democracy. I want witnesses, affidavits, a loyalty oath, a birth certificate examined by a panel of forensic experts, an honorable discharge from the armed forces, and proof she has never accepted a penny in food stamps under any of her aliases.

you know things are way fucked up when aimless gets sarcastic

I think it was Grayson Allen pushed me over the edge.

understandable

who is badass on a friday night two weeks later? the house democrats, that's who

Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?

Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.

She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.

Keep👏🏾Her👏🏾Name👏🏾Out👏🏾Of👏🏾Your👏🏾Mouth. pic.twitter.com/k4sV5hsbQl

— House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) July 13, 2019

jesus

good day to celebrate the death of this shit

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/09/obit-rep-william-dannemeyer-a-face-of-orange-county-conservatism-in-the-age-of-reagan/

His widow Lorraine Day is all over the documentary Ward 5B.

Pence comes through

CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) July 13, 2019

iirc when someone says “my captors are treating me well” you’re not supposed to take that at face value

I feel like Pence doing the “who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes” bit deserves a little more attention than AOC/Pelosi bullshit but oh well.

Also a dude got shot and killed after throwing IEDs at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma this morning.

This one has me gobsmacked. pic.twitter.com/lMRm1nt1xc

— Sassy Jax 🍑 ⚦♊︎ (@Rafaeslomejor) July 13, 2019

Pence has put on a little weight in the intervening 75 years, but not bad, considering